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Preface: The Dark Energy of History
Introduction: On the Edge of History
PART ONE: INQUIRY
1 In Thucydides' Wake: An Ancient and Unknown Genealogy
2 From Delhi to Vienna: Counterfactual History across the World
3 From Pterodactyls to Piccadilly Circus: Uchronias of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
4 The Test of the Social (and Natural) Sciences
PART TWO: DECODING
5 The Historical Imagination and Counterfactual Approaches
6 Causal Inference and Counterfactual Reasoning

Interlude: The Dominion of Facts in the Social Sciences,
7 The Past Futures of Others: Counterfactual Reasoning and Historicity
8 Political Uses of Counterfactual History
PART THREE: EXPERIMENTS
9 Testing Empire: Revisiting Western Domination through Counterfactualism and Possible Futures
10 "Today, Only the Language of Dreams Can Translate History": Futures of Possibility, Fear, and Hope in 1848
11 The Console and the Chalkboard: Replaying History, a "Serious Game"?
12 Writing History Together: A Reflexive and Participative Historical Essay (11/11/11, Grenoble, France)

Conclusion: Becomings in the World
Notes
Index.