Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals - Couverture rigide

Ferguson, Niall

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0465023223 ISBN 13 : 9780465023226

Editeur : Basic Books, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Ferguson Niall

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Hitler had invaded Britain? What if Kennedy had lived? What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into imaginary time” and provides far-reaching answers to these intriguing questions.Ferguson's brilliant 90-page introduction doubles as a manifesto on the methodology of counter-factual history. His equally masterful afterword traces the likely historical ripples that would have proceeded from the maintenance of Stuart rule in England. This breathtaking narrative gives us a convincing, detailed alternative history” of the West from the accession of James III” in 1701, to a Nazi-occupied England, to a U.S. Prime Minister Kennedy who lives to complete his term.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Niall Ferguson is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschilds, and The Pity of War ). He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, and lives in Oxford.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0465023223
• ISBN 13: 9780465023226
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 560