Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tetlock, Philip E. (Philip Eyrikson), 1954-
• Lebow, Richard Ned.
• Parker, Geoffrey, 1943-

Description

x, 415 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subjects

• World history
• Imaginary histories

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface : unmaking the Middle Kingdom / Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Ned Lebow and Geoffrey Parker -- Ch. 1. Counterfactual thought experiments : why we can't live without them & how we must learn to live with them / Philip E. Tetlock and Geoffrey Parker -- Ch. 2. A stillborn West? : Themistocles at Salamis, 450 B.C. / Victor Davis Hanson -- Ch. 3. The resilient West : Salamis without Themistocles, classical Greece without Salamis & the West without classical Greece / Barry Strauss -- Ch. 4. The quest for a counterfactual Jesus : imagining the West without the cross / Carlos M. N. Eire -- Ch. 5. Religious kitsch or industrial revolution : what difference would a Catholic England make? / Carlos M. N. Eire -- Ch. 6. Europe's peculiar path : would the world be "modern" if William III's invasion of England in 1688 had failed? / Jack A. Goldstone -- Ch. 7. Nineteenth-century British imperialism undone with a single shell fragment : a response to Jack Goldstone's "Europe's peculiar path" / Carla Gardina Pestana -- Ch. 8. The Song empire : the world's first superpower? / Robin D. S. Yates -- Ch. 9. Without coal? : colonies? : calculus? : counterfactuals & industrialization in Europe & China / Kenneth Pomeranz -- Ch. 10. King Kong and cold fusion : counterfactual analysis & the history of technology / Joel Mokyr -- Ch. 11. Hitler wins in the East but Germany still loses World War II / Holger H. Herwig -- Ch. 12. Counterfactual history : its advocates, its critics, & its uses / Geoffrey Parker and Philip E. Tetlock.

ISBN

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

LCCN

• 2006010054
• 9780472115433
• 9780472031436

OCLC

• OCM65425784
• SCSB-5290396

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries