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Altered Pasts
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Author : Richard J. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-14
Altered Pasts written by Richard J. Evans and has been published by Brandeis University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-14 with History categories.
A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940 instead of Churchill: seemingly minor twists of fate on which world-shaking events might have hinged. Alternative history has long been the stuff of parlor games, war-gaming, and science fiction, but over the past few decades it has become a popular stomping ground for serious historians. The historian Richard J. Evans now turns a critical, slightly jaundiced eye on a subject typically the purview of armchair historians. The book's main concern is examining the intellectual fallout from historical counterfactuals, which the author defines as "alternative versions of the past in which one alteration in the timeline leads to a different outcome from the one we know actually occurred." What if Britain had stood at the sidelines during the First World War? What if the Wehrmacht had taken Moscow? The author offers an engaging and insightful introduction to the genre, while discussing the reasons for its revival in popularity, the role of historical determinism, and the often hidden agendas of the counterfactual historian. Most important, Evans takes counterfactual history seriously, looking at the insights, pitfalls, and intellectual implications of changing one thread in the weave of history. A wonderful critical introduction to an often-overlooked genre for scholars and casual readers of history alike.
Altered Pasts
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Author : Richard J. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-04
Altered Pasts written by Richard J. Evans and has been published by Brandeis University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with History categories.
Ê A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940 instead of Churchill: seemingly minor twists of fate on which world-shaking events might have hinged. Alternative history has long been the stuff of parlor games, war-gaming, and science fiction, but over the past few decades it has become a popular stomping ground for serious historians. The historian Richard J. Evans now turns a critical, slightly jaundiced eye on a subject typically the purview of armchair historians. The bookÕs main concern is examining the intellectual fallout from historical counterfactuals, which the author defines as Òalternative versions of the past in which one alteration in the timeline leads to a different outcome from the one we know actually occurred.Ó What if Britain had stood at the sidelines during the First World War? What if the Wehrmacht had taken Moscow? The author offers an engaging and insightful introduction to the genre, while discussing the reasons for its revival in popularity, the role of historical determinism, and the often hidden agendas of the counterfactual historian. Most important, Evans takes counterfactual history seriously, looking at the insights, pitfalls, and intellectual implications of changing one thread in the weave of history. A wonderful critical introduction to an often-overlooked genre for scholars and casual readers of history alike.
Red Saxony
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Author : James Retallack
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-14
Red Saxony written by James Retallack and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-14 with History categories.
Red Saxony throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the span of six decades. Election battles were fought so fiercely in Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of democratization. Social democratization could not be stopped, but political democratization was opposed by many members of the German bourgeoisie. Frightened by the electoral success of the Social Democrats after 1871, anti-democrats deployed many strategies that flew in the face of electoral fairness. They battled socialists, liberals, and Jews at election time, but they also strove to rewrite the electoral rules of the game. Using a regional lens to rethink older assumptions about Germany's changing political culture, this volume focuses as much on contemporary Germans' perceptions of electoral fairness as on their experiences of voting. It devotes special attention to various semi-democratic voting systems whereby a general and equal suffrage (for the Reichstag) was combined with limited and unequal ones for local and regional parliaments. For the first time, democratization at all three tiers of governance and their reciprocal effects are considered together. Although the bourgeois face of German authoritarianism was nowhere more evident than in the Kingdom of Saxony, Red Saxony illustrates how other Germans grew to fear the spectre of democracy. Although twists and turns lay ahead, that fear made it easier for Hitler and the Nazis to win elections in the 1920s and to entomb German democracy in 1933.
Window And Parlor Gardening
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Author : Nils Jönsson-Rose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Window And Parlor Gardening written by Nils Jönsson-Rose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with House plants categories.
Mineralogical Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Mineralogical Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Mineralogy categories.
The Mineralogical Magazine And Journal Of The Mineralogical Society
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
The Mineralogical Magazine And Journal Of The Mineralogical Society written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Mineralogy categories.
Transactions Of The Pathological Society Of London
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Author : Pathological Society of London
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Transactions Of The Pathological Society Of London written by Pathological Society of London and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Pathology categories.
List of members in vol. 2-58.
New York Court Of Appeals Records And Briefs
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Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
New York Court Of Appeals Records And Briefs written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Law categories.
Volume contains: 65 NY 30 (Lamont v. Cheshire) 65 NY 43 (Carpenter v. Black Hawk G. M. Co.) 65 NY 54 (Rider v. White) 65 NY 57 (Burbank v. Fay) 65 NY 73 (Cole v. Tyler) 65 NY 85 (Haviland v. Wehle) 65 NY 411 (Samson v. Rose) 65 NY 555 (Swift v. Prouty) 65 NY 556 (Eldridge v. Strenz) 65 NY 556 (Kidd F. &c Mfg. Co. v. Gally) 65 NY 588 (City of Watertown v. Fairbanks)
The Physical Diagnosis Of Brain Disease
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Author : Reuben A. Vance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
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House Documents
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
House Documents written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with categories.