Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals

ISBN-13: 9780241952252 / Miękka / 2011 / 560 str.

Niall Ferguson

Opis

This collection explores what would have happened if nine momentous events in history had turned out differently. The answers are strictly based on the alternatives which we know contemporaries contemplated.

Recenzje

Quite brilliant, inspiring for the layman and an enviable tour de force for the informed reader ... A wonderful book ... lucid, exciting and easy to read Literary Review

O autorze

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His most recent book is The Square and the Tower.