Speculates what may have happened if nine major events did not occur, asking such questions as, "What if there had been no American Revoultion?" and "What if John F. Kennedy had lived?"
This new volume in the widely praised series presents fascinating "what if..." scenarios by such prominent historians as: Robert Dallek, Caleb Carr, Antony Beevor, John Lukacs, Jay Winick, Thomas Fleming, Tom Wicker, Theodore Rabb, Victor ...
Demonstrates how modern statistical techniques can measure the impact of counterfactual decisions.
A History of the Imagination is a postmodern tale of adventure that reshapes the parameters of time and space, thought and action.
In A New History of the Future in 100 Objects, Adrian Hon constructs a possible future by imagining the things it might leave in its wake.
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“That reminds me,” he began—for those around Lincoln, those three words—were very familiar “of a barber in Sangamon County. He had just gone to bed, when a stranger came along and said he must be shaved; ...
L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze is a French television program produced by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988–1989. It consists of an eight-hour series of interviews between Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet.
And what would the following Cold War have looked like? These are all questions and scenarios that the author rigorously examines.
"Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." —The Washington Post Book World Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis ...