Virtual history : alternatives and counterfactuals

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Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Virtual History: Towards a \'chaotic\' theory of the past – Niall Ferguson  [1]
	Divine Intervention and Predestination
	Scientific Determinism: Materialism and Idealism
	Contingency, Chance and the Revolt against Causation
	Scientific History – Continued
	Narrative Determinism: Why Not Invent History?
	The Garden of Forking Paths
	Chaos and the End of Scientific Determinism
	Towards Chaostory
1  England Without Cromwell: What if Charles I had avoided the Civil War? – John Adamson  [91]
	Scotland in 1639: A Victory Forgone
	The Fortunes of Puritanism: Senescence and Decline?
	The Remaking of the English Judiciary
	Stuart Britain: The Refashioning of the State
2  British America: What if there had been no American Revolution? – J. C. D. Clark  [125]
	The Inevitability of Anglo-American History
	Stuart Alternatives: An Empire of Many Parliaments – or None?
	Two Types of Tragedy? 1688 and 1776
	\'External Causes\' and the Inadequacy of Teleology
	The Strategic Counterfactuals
	Domestic Counterfactuals: Colonial Union, Taxation and Democracy
	The Problems of Repression in a Libertarian Polity
	Manifest Destinies? The Denial of American Counterfactuals
	The Marginalised, the Expropriated and the Oppressed
	The Long Shadow of the Transatlantic Counterfactual
3  British Ireland: What if Home Rule had been enacted in 1912? – Alvin Jackson  [175]
	The History of an Idea
	The Prospects for a Settlement
	Interpreting the Third Home Rule Bill
	Ireland under Home Rule
	Arcadia?
4  The Kaiser\'s European Union: What if Britain had \'stood aside\' in August 1914? – Niall Ferguson  [228]
	An Older Counterfactual: Anglo-German Entente
	Britain\'s War of Illusions
	Germany\'s Bid for European Union
	The Continental Non-Commitment
	The War against the Tories
	A War without the BEF
5  Hitler\'s England: What if Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940? – Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson  [281]
	An Older Counterfactual: Non-Appeasement
	Peaceful Coexistence: The Charmley Counterfactual
	A Still Worse Scenario: The Invasion of Britain
	The Collaboration Counterfactual
	Never Surrender?
6  Nazi Europe: What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? – Michael Burleigh  [321]
	Rosenberg\'s Counterfactual
	Hitler\'s Vision
	Himmler\'s Counterfactual
	And Tomorrow, the World?
7  Stalin\'s War Or Peace: What if the Cold War had been avoided? – Jonathan Haslam  [348]
	What if the United States had not had the Atomic Bomb?
	What if Western Intelligence had not been Penetrated?
	What if Stalin had accepted the Western definition of \'Influence\'?
8  Camelot Continued: What if John F. Kennedy had lived? – Diane Kunz  [368]
	The Origins of a Myth
	The Second Emancipation
	America\'s Longest War
	What if Kennedy had Lived?
9  1989 Without Gorbachev: What if Communism had not collapsed? – Mark Almond  [392]
	The End of Ideology – and of the Ideologists
	The Politics of Economic Crisis
	How would the West have reacted to a Crackdown?
	The Final Oil Shock
Afterword: A Virtual History, 1646–1996 – Niall Ferguson  [416]
Notes  [441]
	Introduction – Virtual History: Towards a \'chaotic\' theory of the past – Niall Ferguson
	1  England Without Cromwell: What if Charles I had avoided the Civil War? – John Adamson
	2  British America: What if there had been no American Revolution? – J. C. D. Clark
	3  British Ireland: What if Home Rule had been enacted in 1912? – Alvin Jackson
	4  The Kaiser\'s European Union: What if Britain had \'stood aside\' in August 1914? – Niall Ferguson
	5  Hitler\'s England: What if Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940? – Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson
	6  Nazi Europe: What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? – Michael Burleigh
	7  Stalin\'s War Or Peace: What if the Cold War had been avoided? – Jonathan Haslam
	8  Camelot Continued: What if John F. Kennedy had lived? – Diane Kunz
	9  1989 Without Gorbachev: What if Communism had not collapsed? – Mark Almond
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