LEADER 03102nam 2200649 450 001 9910797322203321 005 20230807221301.0 010 $a0-253-01706-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000454510 035 $a(EBL)2120320 035 $a(OCoLC)915059055 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001521264 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12557112 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001521264 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11531479 035 $a(PQKB)11216493 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2120320 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48781 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2120320 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11081759 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL817180 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000454510 100 $a20150605h20152015 ub| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOther pasts, different presents, alternative futures /$fJeremy Black 210 1$aBloomington :$cIndiana University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-01704-1 311 $a0-253-01697-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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. 330 2 $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. 606 $aImaginary histories 606 $aHistory$xMethodology 606 $aContingency (Philosophy) 606 $aAgent (Philosophy) 606 $aHistory$xPhilosophy 615 0$aImaginary histories. 615 0$aHistory$xMethodology. 615 0$aContingency (Philosophy) 615 0$aAgent (Philosophy) 615 0$aHistory$xPhilosophy. 676 $a900 700 $aBlack$b Jeremy$f1955-$0144601 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797322203321 996 $aOther pasts, different presents, alternative futures$93798449 997 $aUNINA