Virtual history : alternatives and counterfactuals
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TextPublication details: London Papermac 1998Description: x, 548 pISBN: 0333647289 (pbk.)Subject(s): History, Modern | Historiography | History | Counterfactuals (Logic)DDC classification: 901.12 Summary: What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? Historians have traditionally refused to ask questions of the past, preferring to assume that whatever happened was inevitable. But Virtual History challenges this complacency as leading historians apply "counterfactual" arguments to decisive moments in modern history.
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| 901 SOU/P Postmodernism in history : | 901 SOU/W What is history for? / | 901 VIS Visions of culture, | 901.12 VIR Virtual history : alternatives and counterfactuals | 901.505 RAJ/T Tibet, India, and China : critical choices, uncertain future | 904 HUN 100 great adventures | 907 DON/D Doing history |
What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? Historians have traditionally refused to ask questions of the past, preferring to assume that whatever happened was inevitable. But Virtual History challenges this complacency as leading historians apply "counterfactual" arguments to decisive moments in modern history.
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