Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals
What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Hitler had invaded Britain? What if Kennedy had lived? What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into imaginary time” and provides far-reaching answers to these intriguing questions.Ferguson's brilliant 90-page introduction doubles as a manifesto on the methodology of counter-factual history. His equally masterful afterword traces the likely historical ripples that would have proceeded from the maintenance of Stuart rule in England. This breathtakin…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7867-2579-3
- EAN: 9780786725793
- Produktnummer: 22912738
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 560 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 805 KB
Über den Autor
Niall Ferguson is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschilds, and The Pity of War ). He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, and lives in Oxford.
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