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000759141 1001_ $$aBlack, Jeremy,$$d1955-$$eauthor.
000759141 24510 $$aOther pasts, different presents, alternative futures$$h[electronic resource] /$$cJeremy Black.
000759141 264_1 $$aBloomington :$$bIndiana University Press,$$c[2015]
000759141 264_4 $$c©2015
000759141 300__ $$a1 online resource (254 pages)
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000759141 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000759141 5050_ $$aA personal note on life and times -- Types of history -- Power and the struggle for imperial mastery -- The West and the rest -- Britain and France, 1688-1815 -- Counterfactualism in military history -- Into the future -- Skepticism and the historian -- Conclusions -- Postscript.
000759141 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000759141 5202_ $$a"What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The questioning of apparent certainties or 'known knowns' can be fascinating and, indeed, 'What if?' books are very popular. However, this speculative approach, known as counterfactualism, has had limited impact in academic histories, historiography, and the teaching of historical methods. In this book, Jeremy Black offers a short guide to the subject, one that is designed to argue its value as a tool for public and academe alike. Black focuses on the role of counterfactualism in demonstrating the part of contingency, and thus human agency, in history, and the salutary critique the approach offers to determinist accounts of past, present, and future"--Provided by publisher.
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000759141 650_0 $$aImaginary histories.
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000759141 650_0 $$aContingency (Philosophy)
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000759141 650_0 $$aHistory$$xPhilosophy.
000759141 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aBlack, Jeremy.$$tOther pasts, different presents, alternative futures.$$dBloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]$$z9780253016973
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