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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tetlock, Philip E. (Philip Eyrikson), 1954-

Lebow, Richard Ned.

Parker, Geoffrey, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imaginary histories.

World history.

Physical Description:

x, 415 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

047211543X

0472031430

9780472115433

9780472031436

OCLC:

65425784

Publisher Number:

9780472115433

9780472031436