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Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals Paperback - 2000

by Niall Ferguson

What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Kennedy had lived? These are some of the questions "answered" in "Virtual History", which provides intriguing, far-reaching answers to these questions.


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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.

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Between 1638 and 1640, when not distracted by fiscal crises and Scottish wars, Charles I turned his attention to a more congenial task: the plans for a new royal palace at Whitehall.

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  • Title Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
  • Author Niall Ferguson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Date 2000-09-01
  • ISBN 9780465023233 / 0465023231
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 5.99 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 15.21 x 3.05 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 901.12

About the author

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.
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