Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction by Catherine Gallagher

Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction

Catherine Gallagher

416 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narrative...

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