Screen LibraryUnmaking the West："what-if" scenarios that rewrite world history
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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University of Michigan Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Ann Arbor |
| Publication Dates: | c2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 415 p.: ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
047211543X (cloth : alk. paper) 0472031430 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780472115433 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780472031436 (pbk. : alk paper) |
| Index Number: | K1 |
| CLC: | K1 |
| Call Number: | K1/U589 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. |