Telling it like it wasn't : the counterfactual imagination in history and fiction /

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Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fanta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gallagher, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Temas:
Imaginary histories > History.
Alternative histories (Fiction) > History and criticism.
Counterfactuals (Logic)
Histoire-fiction > Histoire.
Uchronie (Genre littéraire) > Histoire et critique.
Contrefactuels (Logique)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Imaginary histories.
Geschichtsphilosophie
Parahistorischer Roman
Alternativgeschichte
Kontrafaktisches Denken
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The history of counterfactual history from Leibniz to Clausewitz
  • Nineteenth-century alternate-history narratives
  • How the USA lost the Civil War
  • Historical activism and the alternate-America novels
  • Nazi Britain: the invasion and occupation that weren't
  • The fictions of nazi Britain.

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