Unmaking the West
Subtitle: "what-if" scenarios that rewrite world history
By: Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Ned Lebow, & Geoffrey Parker, editors.
Contributors: Tetlock, Philip.; Lebow, Richard Ned.; Parker, Geoffrey, 1943-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780472115433; 9780472031436
Subjects: Imaginary histories; World history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unmaking the Middle Kingdom / the editors; title: Counterfactual thought experiments / Philip E. Tetlock and Geoffrey Parker; title: A stillborn west? / Victor Davis Hanson; title: The resilient West / Barry S. Strauss; title: The quest for a counterfactual Jesus / Carlos M.N. Eire; title: Religious kitsch or industrial revolution / Carlos M.N. Eire; title: Europe's peculiar path / Jack A. Goldstone; title: Nineteenth-century British imperialism undone with a single shell fragment / Carla Gardina Pestana; title: The Song empire / Robin D.S. Yates; title: Without coal? colonies? calculus? / Kenneth Pomeranz; title: King Kong and cold fusion / Joel Mokyr; title: Hitler wins in the East but Germany still loses World War II / Holger H. Herwig; title: Counterfactual history / Geoffrey Parker and Philip E. Tetlock.