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  1. Telling it like it wasn't
    the counterfactual imagination in history and fiction
    Author: Gallagher, Catherine A.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; De Gruyter, London

    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 narratives... more

     

    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 narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy or as pop culture fodder, but in Telling It Like It Wasn’t, Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down as an object of dispassionate study. She doesn’t take a moral or normative stand on the practice, but focuses her attention on how it works and to what ends—a quest that takes readers on a fascinating tour of literary and historical criticism.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226512556
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    Subjects: Parahistorischer Roman; ; Kontrafaktisches Denken; ; Alternativgeschichte; Geschichtsphilosophie;
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Telling it like it wasn't
    the counterfactual imagination in history and fiction
    Author: Gallagher, Catherine
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    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 narratives... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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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 narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy or as pop culture fodder, but in 'Telling It Like It Wasn't', Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down as an object of dispassionate study.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226512556
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    RVK Categories: EC 6745
    Subjects: Parahistorischer Roman; Kontrafaktisches Denken; Alternativgeschichte; Geschichtsphilosophie; Imaginary histories; Alternative histories (Fiction); Counterfactuals (Logic)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressourcece
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    Previously issued in print: 2018

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  3. Telling It Like It Wasn't
    The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction
    Author: Gallagher, Catherine
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226512556
    RVK Categories: EC 6745
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subjects: Parahistorischer Roman; Kontrafaktisches Denken; Alternativgeschichte; Geschichtsphilosophie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (368 pages)
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  4. Telling it like it wasn't
    the counterfactual imagination in history and fiction
    Author: Gallagher, Catherine
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226512556
    RVK Categories: EC 1970 ; EC 6859
    Series: ProQuest Ebook Central
    Subjects: Imaginary histories; Alternative histories (Fiction); Counterfactuals (Logic); Alternative histories (Fiction); Counterfactuals (Logic); Imaginary histories
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 359 Seiten)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index