Other pasts, different presents, alternative futures /

"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...

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第一著者: Black, Jeremy, 1955- (著者)
フォーマット: 電子媒体 eBook
言語:英語
出版事項: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
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