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Country United Kingdom Media type Hardcover, Paperback Originally published 30 August 1991 | 2.8/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 206 pages (hardcover) OCLC 22664059 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publication date August, 1991 (hardcover) ISBN 0-521-40359-6 (hardcover) Similar Enlightenment and despair, Virtual History: Alternativ, In the Beginning Was the, Thucydides on Politics: Back to th, Asia and the Pacific | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 new york electronic art festival exhibition plausible worlds
Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences is a 1991 book by Geoffrey Hawthorn, professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge. The book is credited with legitimizing the academic field of counterfactual history.
The book explores three points of divergence: the Black Death, the Korean War, and the influence of Duccio.
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