دانلود کتاب Virtual history : alternatives and counterfactuals

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Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Virtual History: Towards a \'chaotic\' theory of the past – Niall Ferguson [1]
Divine Intervention and Predestination
Scientific Determinism: Materialism and Idealism
Contingency, Chance and the Revolt against Causation
Scientific History – Continued
Narrative Determinism: Why Not Invent History?
The Garden of Forking Paths
Chaos and the End of Scientific Determinism
Towards Chaostory
1 England Without Cromwell: What if Charles I had avoided the Civil War? – John Adamson [91]
Scotland in 1639: A Victory Forgone
The Fortunes of Puritanism: Senescence and Decline?
The Remaking of the English Judiciary
Stuart Britain: The Refashioning of the State
2 British America: What if there had been no American Revolution? – J. C. D. Clark [125]
The Inevitability of Anglo-American History
Stuart Alternatives: An Empire of Many Parliaments – or None?
Two Types of Tragedy? 1688 and 1776
\'External Causes\' and the Inadequacy of Teleology
The Strategic Counterfactuals
Domestic Counterfactuals: Colonial Union, Taxation and Democracy
The Problems of Repression in a Libertarian Polity
Manifest Destinies? The Denial of American Counterfactuals
The Marginalised, the Expropriated and the Oppressed
The Long Shadow of the Transatlantic Counterfactual
3 British Ireland: What if Home Rule had been enacted in 1912? – Alvin Jackson [175]
The History of an Idea
The Prospects for a Settlement
Interpreting the Third Home Rule Bill
Ireland under Home Rule
Arcadia?
4 The Kaiser\'s European Union: What if Britain had \'stood aside\' in August 1914? – Niall Ferguson [228]
An Older Counterfactual: Anglo-German Entente
Britain\'s War of Illusions
Germany\'s Bid for European Union
The Continental Non-Commitment
The War against the Tories
A War without the BEF
5 Hitler\'s England: What if Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940? – Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson [281]
An Older Counterfactual: Non-Appeasement
Peaceful Coexistence: The Charmley Counterfactual
A Still Worse Scenario: The Invasion of Britain
The Collaboration Counterfactual
Never Surrender?
6 Nazi Europe: What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? – Michael Burleigh [321]
Rosenberg\'s Counterfactual
Hitler\'s Vision
Himmler\'s Counterfactual
And Tomorrow, the World?
7 Stalin\'s War Or Peace: What if the Cold War had been avoided? – Jonathan Haslam [348]
What if the United States had not had the Atomic Bomb?
What if Western Intelligence had not been Penetrated?
What if Stalin had accepted the Western definition of \'Influence\'?
8 Camelot Continued: What if John F. Kennedy had lived? – Diane Kunz [368]
The Origins of a Myth
The Second Emancipation
America\'s Longest War
What if Kennedy had Lived?
9 1989 Without Gorbachev: What if Communism had not collapsed? – Mark Almond [392]
The End of Ideology – and of the Ideologists
The Politics of Economic Crisis
How would the West have reacted to a Crackdown?
The Final Oil Shock
Afterword: A Virtual History, 1646–1996 – Niall Ferguson [416]
Notes [441]
Introduction – Virtual History: Towards a \'chaotic\' theory of the past – Niall Ferguson
1 England Without Cromwell: What if Charles I had avoided the Civil War? – John Adamson
2 British America: What if there had been no American Revolution? – J. C. D. Clark
3 British Ireland: What if Home Rule had been enacted in 1912? – Alvin Jackson
4 The Kaiser\'s European Union: What if Britain had \'stood aside\' in August 1914? – Niall Ferguson
5 Hitler\'s England: What if Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940? – Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson
6 Nazi Europe: What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? – Michael Burleigh
7 Stalin\'s War Or Peace: What if the Cold War had been avoided? – Jonathan Haslam
8 Camelot Continued: What if John F. Kennedy had lived? – Diane Kunz
9 1989 Without Gorbachev: What if Communism had not collapsed? – Mark Almond
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