Fergusons brilliant 90page introduction doubles as a manifesto on the methodology of counterfactual history. What if nazi germany had defeated the soviet union. As an alternative, the kindle ebook is available now and can be read on any device with. Alternatives and counterfactuals ferguson, niall on amazon. Doing so, ferguson placed virtual history within the limits of. Tisch professor of history at harvard university, a senior research fellow of jesus college, oxford and a senior fellow of the hoover institution, stanford university.
Investors try to learn from history, but the very different financial impacts of the two world wars and the cold war reveal the tendency of military technology and regulatory regimes to shift. The controversial revisionist history of world war i that made niall fergusons name the first world war killed around eight million men and bled europe dry. Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books. Niall ferguson is currently considered a single author. More than any other event, it made the twentieth century. Pdf this essay provides an extended commentary on richard evans book altered pasts from the. Virtual history is the brainchild of niall ferguson, a fellow and tutor in modern history at jesus college, oxford, and the author of a formidable history of the house. The book looks at the motives and perspectives of game designers and marketers, as well as the societal expectations addressed, through contingency and determinism, economics, the environment, culture. Virtual history by niall ferguson penguin books australia.
Alternatives and counterfactuals by niall ferguson paperback. Virtual history by niall ferguson, 9780241952252, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Niall ferguson has written several fine books that are mustreads for educated people. Toward a chaotic theory of the past, in virtual history. Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that niall fergusons numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. Doing so, ferguson placed virtual history within the limits of past perceptions. As the key theater of the war for the germans, the eastern front consumed enormous levels of resources and accounted for 75 percent of all german casualties.
Niall ferguson editor is one of britains most renowned historians. The decline and fall of history niall ferguson video. He is also a senior research fellow of jesus college, university of oxford, a senior fellow of the hoover institution, stanford university and. Niall fergusons acclaimed empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours pdf and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and golddiggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history and set the world on the road to modernity.
It did so by downloading six killer apps from the west. Alternatives and counterfactuals by niall ferguson 2000 english pdf. Niall ferguson is one of the worlds most renowned historians. Virtual history features contributions from talented, imaginative and wellregarded historians, led by niall ferguson. On june 22, 1941, germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the soviet union, an attack that adolf hitler deemed crucial to ensure german economic and political survival.
Counterfactual history, also sometimes referred to as virtual history, is a form of historiography that attempts to answer what if questions known as counterfactuals. Schroeder, embedded counterfactuals and world war i as an unavoidable war, in. Virtual history examines many of the most popular historical video games released over the last decade and explores their portrayal of history. He is also a senior fellow at the hoover institution, stanford university, and a. In virtual history, the oxford historian niall ferguson has brought together a dis. These include the pity of war on wwi, the war of the world about the major conflicts in the 20th century including a stunning chapter on the armed slave labor camp that was the soviet union, and this book virtual history on counterfactual or what if history. The first world war killed around eight million men and bled europe dry. The pity of war download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. He is the author of paper and iron, the house of rothschild, the pity of war, the cash nexus, empire, colossus, the war of the world, the ascent of money, high financier, civilization.
In literature, the genre of alternative history has been used for a wide spectrum of purposes. Dick used an alternative world, in which the axis powers won the second world war and divided the usa between germany and japan, in order to explore the nature of human decency associated with the american ophile japanese occupation in san francisco and fanatic totalitarianism associ ated. Though counterfactual history has been dismissed by some historians as a parlorgame, a red herring, even the complete rejection of history, ferguson will have none of it. Edited by niall ferguson, virtual history applies counterfactual arguments to decisive moments in modern history. Language and sources info in this extract ferguson takes these different essays and weaves them into a counterfactual narrative history. Niall ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed the pity of war, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into imaginary time and provides farreaching answers to these intriguing questions.
However, for the scottish historian niall ferguson, editor of the. Alternatives and counterfactuals ferguson, niall on. Buy virtual history by niall ferguson from waterstones today. Pdf the ascent of money download full pdf book download.
It is, at the very root, the idea of conjecturing on what did not happen, or what might have happened, in order to understand what did happen. Pdf virtual history download full pdf book download. But, beginning with the fall of the berlin wall in 1989, the east has now caught up, according to niall ferguson. The global empire of niall ferguson harvard magazine.
The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, chimerica, and cryptocurrency in this updated edition, niall ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that. Analysis counterfactuals, causal inference, and historical. This meaty, scholarly collection of essays by gifted historian niall ferguson tackles the controversial topic of counterfactual questions. Niall campbell ferguson is a british historian from scotland. Alternatives and counterfactuals edited by niall ferguson historiographical counterfactuals and historical contingency tucker 1999 history and theory.
Previously, he was a professor at harvard university and new york university, visiting professor at new college of the humanities and senior research fellow at jesus college, oxford. How would england look if there had been no cromwell. What if britain had stayed out of the first world war. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Tisch professor of history at harvard university and current senior fellow at the center for european studies at harvard university, a visiting professor at tsinghua university, beijing, and founder and managing director of advisory firm. What if there had been no american war of independence. Alternatives and counterfactuals niall ferguson 9780241952252. Virtual history by niall ferguson, 9780241952252, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Niall ferguson is a historian who wrote the pity of war, virtual history and. Networks and power, from the freemasons to facebook.