Plausible Worlds

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Plausible Worlds
LC Class
D16.9 .H39 1991

Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences is a 1991 book by Geoffrey Hawthorn, professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge. The book is credited with legitimizing the academic field of counterfactual history.[1]

The book explores three

points of divergence: the Black Death, the Korean War, and the influence of Duccio
.

References

  1. ^ Smoler, Fredric (1999), "Past Tense", American Heritage, vol. 50, no. 5