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 &...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Black, Jeremy, 1955- (Awdur)
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Pynciau:
Mynediad Ar-lein:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tagiau: Ychwanegu Tag
Dim Tagiau, Byddwch y cyntaf i dagio'r cofnod hwn!
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • A 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.