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Title:

Unmaking the West : "what-if" scenarios that rewrite world history / Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Ned Lebow, & Geoffrey Parker, editors.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 415 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Imaginary histories.
World history.
Histoire-fiction.
Histoire universelle.
Counterfactual analysis.
Westerse wereld.

Other Authors:

Tetlock, Philip.
Lebow, Richard Ned.
Parker, Geoffrey, 1943-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Unmaking the Middle Kingdom / the editors -- Counterfactual thought experiments / Philip E. Tetlock and Geoffrey Parker -- A stillborn west? / Victor Davis Hanson -- The resilient West / Barry S. Strauss -- The quest for a counterfactual Jesus / Carlos M.N. Eire -- Religious kitsch or industrial revolution / Carlos M.N. Eire -- Europe's peculiar path / Jack A. Goldstone -- Nineteenth-century British imperialism undone with a single shell fragment / Carla Gardina Pestana -- The Song empire / Robin D.S. Yates -- Without coal? colonies? calculus? / Kenneth Pomeranz -- King Kong and cold fusion / Joel Mokyr -- Hitler wins in the East but Germany still loses World War II / Holger H. Herwig -- Counterfactual history / Geoffrey Parker and Philip E. Tetlock.

ISBN:

0472031430 (pbk. : alk paper)
9780472031436 (pbk. : alk paper)
9780472031436 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0472031430 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780472115433 (cloth : alk. paper)
047211543X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65425784

LCCN:

2006010054

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)