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Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures (Hardcover)
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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.
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