Virtual History

Alternatives and Counterfactuals

By: Niall Ferguson (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 July 1998 | Edition Number 1

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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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Nine leading historians reject the deterministic methods of studying history and apply counterfactual arguments to critical moments. What if Charles I had avoided the Civil War? What if Britain had stood aside in 1914? What if communism had not collapsed in 1989? Traditionalists may splutter, but this book brings history alive in a disputatious manner. (Kirkus UK)

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Non-Fiction History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 History Theory & Methods Historiography General & World History Philosophy Philosophy & Logic Warfare & Defence

Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction: Virtual History: Towards a 'chaotic' theory of the past	p. 1
England Without Cromwell: What if Charles I had avoided the Civil War?	p. 91
British America: What if there had been no American Revolution?	p. 125
British Ireland: What if Home Rule had been enacted in 1912?	p. 175
The Kaiser's European Union: What if Britain had 'stood aside' in August 1914?	p. 228
Hitler's England: What if Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940?	p. 281
Nazi Europe: What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union?	p. 321
Stalin's War or Peace: What if the Cold War had been avoided?	p. 348
Camelot Continued: What if John F. Kennedy had lived?	p. 368
1989 Without Gorbachev: What if Communism had not collapsed?	p. 392
Afterword: A Virtual History, 1646-1996	p. 416
Notes	p. 441
Index	p. 530
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