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"What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The questioning of apparent certainties or &...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Black, Jeremy, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Imaginary histories.
History > Philosophy.
History > Methodology.
Contingency (Philosophy)
Agent (Philosophy)
HISTORY > Europe > General.
HISTORY > Social History.
HISTORY > Reference.
HISTORY > Essays.
HISTORY > Civilization.
Contingence (Philosophie)
Histoire > Methodologie.
Histoire-fiction.
Histoires contrefactuelles.
Counterfactual histories.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A personal note on life and times
  • Types of history
  • Power and the struggle for imperial mastery
  • The West and the rest
  • Britain and France, 1688-1815
  • Counterfactualism in military history
  • Into the future
  • Skepticism and the historian
  • Conclusions
  • Postscript.

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