A past of possibilities: a history of what could have been

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: The Dark Energy of History -- Introduction: On the Edge of History -- PART ONE: INQUIRY -- 1 In Thucydides' Wake: An Ancient and Unknown Genealogy -- 2 From Delhi to Vienna: Counterfactual History across the World -- 3 From Ptero...

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Hauptverfasser: Deluermoz, Quentin 1976- (VerfasserIn), Singaravélou, Pierre 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Sawyer, Stephen W. 1948- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven ; London Yale University Press [2021]
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Zusammenfassung:Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: The Dark Energy of History -- Introduction: On the Edge of History -- PART ONE: INQUIRY -- 1 In Thucydides' Wake: An Ancient and Unknown Genealogy -- 2 From Delhi to Vienna: Counterfactual History across the World -- 3 From Pterodactyls to Piccadilly Circus: Uchronias of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 4 The Test of the Social (and Natural) Sciences -- PART TWO: DECODING -- 5 The Historical Imagination and Counterfactual Approaches -- 6 Causal Inference and Counterfactual Reasoning -- Interlude: The Dominion of Facts in the Social Sciences, -- 7 The Past Futures of Others: Counterfactual Reasoning and Historicity -- 8 Political Uses of Counterfactual History -- PART THREE: EXPERIMENTS -- 9 Testing Empire: Revisiting Western Domination through Counterfactualism and Possible Futures -- 10 "Today, Only the Language of Dreams Can Translate History": Futures of Possibility, Fear, and Hope in 1848 -- 11 The Console and the Chalkboard: Replaying History, a "Serious Game"? -- 12 Writing History Together: A Reflexive and Participative Historical Essay (11/11/11, Grenoble, France) -- Conclusion: Becomings in the World -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 380 Seiten)
ISBN:9780300262858
DOI:10.12987/9780300262858

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