What if? modality and history

History and Theory

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-168

  Bulhof, Johannes ^a  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 20444484805     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0018-2656.00084     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Virtual History, ed. Niall Ferguson (London, 1997). A review of Ferguson's book appears in this issue of History and Theory beginning on page 264
2. J. M. Roberts, "Putting the What if? in History," Times Literary Supplement (August 1, 1997), 6
3. Johannes Bulhof, The Truth about Possibility and Necessity (unpublished PhD. dissertation, 1995)
4. Daniel Goldhagen. Hitler's Willing Executioners (New York, 1996)
5. C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, A History of the Great War 1914-1918 [1934] (Chicago, 1991), 266. Italics added
6. Ralph Griffiths, "The Later Middle Ages," The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, ed. Kenneth O. Morgan (Oxford, 1984), 190. Italics added
7. Richard Overly, Why the Allies Won (New York, 1995), 130.
8. James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (New York, 1988), 306. Italics in the original
9. Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Settling with the Indians (London, 1980), 186
10. James W. Loewen, Lies My Teachers Told Me (New York, 1995), 82
11. Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners, 6. Italics added.
12. John Keegan, The Second World War (New York, 1989), 337
13. Stephen Sears, Landscape Turned Red (New Haven, 1983), 181.
14. David Ruelle, Chance and Chaos (Princeton, 1991), 76.
15. Robert Rosen, Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life (New York, 1991), 68.
16. Ruelle, Chance and Chaos, 79.
17. Ferguson, Virtual History, 17.
18. See David Lewis, Counterfactuals (Cambridge, Mass. , 1973)