Virtual history : alternatives and counterfactuals
Material type: 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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