Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Counterfactual_history> ?p ?o }
- Counterfactual_history abstract "Counterfactual history, also sometimes referred to as virtual history, is a form of historiography that attempts to answer \"what if\" questions known as counterfactuals. Black and MacRaild provide this definition: \"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. The method seeks to explore history and historical incidents by means of extrapolating a timeline in which certain key historical events did not happen or had an outcome which was different from that which did in fact occur. It has produced a book genre which is variously called alternative history, speculative history, or hypothetical history.One goal is to estimate the relative importance of a specific event, incident or person. For instance, to the counterfactual claim \"What would have happened had Hitler drunk coffee instead of tea on the afternoon he committed suicide?\", the timeline would have remained unchanged—Hitler in all likelihood still would have committed suicide on April 30, 1945, regardless of what he had to drink that afternoon. However, to the counterfactual \"What would have happened had Hitler died in the July 1944 assassination attempt?\", all sorts of possibilities become readily apparent, starting with the assumption that the German generals, had they been able to consolidate power over remaining Nazi functionaries such as Goebbels and Himmler, would probably have sued for peace, bringing an early end to World War II. (Historians generally feel popular support for the Party was still very strong in July 1944, and the party apparatus of Himmler, Goebbels, Speer, Bormann, Göring etc. would survive even an assassination of Hitler.) Thus, the counterfactual brings into sharp relief the question of how important Hitler was as an individual and how his personal fate shaped the course of the war and, ultimately, of world history.".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageExternalLink bunzl.html.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageExternalLink lebow.html.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageExternalLink www.thecounterfactualhistoryreview.blogspot.com.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageID "72208".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageLength "13310".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageOutDegree "61".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageRevisionID "689481182".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink 20_July_plot.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Adolf_Hitler.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Albert_Speer.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Alternate_history.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Gettysburg.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Category:Alternate_history.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fields_of_history.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Category:Historiography.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Category:Theories_of_history.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Category:Thought_experiments.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Causality.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Coffee.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Counterfactual_conditional.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Genoa.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Geoffrey_Hawthorn.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Geoffrey_Parker_(historian).
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Globalization.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Heinrich_Himmler.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Hermann_Göring.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Historical_revisionism.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Historiography.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink If_It_Had_Happened_Otherwise.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Jonbar_Hinge.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_Goebbels.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Kim_Stanley_Robinson.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Martin_Bormann.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Martin_Bunzl.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Marxism.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Netherlands.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Niall_Ferguson.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Philip_E._Tetlock.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Plausible_Worlds.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Portugal.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Railroads_and_American_Economic_Growth:_Essays_in_Econometric_History.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Richard_J._Evans.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Richard_Ned_Lebow.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Cowley.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Robert_E._Lee.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Fogel.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Song_dynasty.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Speculative_fiction.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Stalins_Missed_Chance.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Tea.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink United_Kingdom.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Venice.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Victorian_era.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Virtual_History:_Alternatives_and_Counterfactuals.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink What_If%3F_(essays).
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Wiktionary:what_if.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink Winston_Churchill.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText ""what-if" novel".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alternative history".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "Counterfactual history".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "Counterfactual".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "Counterfactuals".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "What If".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "What If?".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "alternative historian".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "alternative history".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "counter-factual approach".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "counter-factual history".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "counter-factually".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "counterfactual histories".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "counterfactual history".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "counterfactual reasoning".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "counterfactual".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageWikiLinkText "pseudo-historic".
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Other_uses.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refbegin.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refend.
- Counterfactual_history wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Counterfactual_history subject Category:Alternate_history.
- Counterfactual_history subject Category:Fields_of_history.
- Counterfactual_history subject Category:Historiography.
- Counterfactual_history subject Category:Theories_of_history.
- Counterfactual_history subject Category:Thought_experiments.
- Counterfactual_history hypernym Form.
- Counterfactual_history type Element.
- Counterfactual_history type Field.
- Counterfactual_history type Redirect.
- Counterfactual_history type Subfield.
- Counterfactual_history type Theory.
- Counterfactual_history comment "Counterfactual history, also sometimes referred to as virtual history, is a form of historiography that attempts to answer \"what if\" questions known as counterfactuals. Black and MacRaild provide this definition: \"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.".
- Counterfactual_history label "Counterfactual history".
- Counterfactual_history sameAs Q935780.
- Counterfactual_history sameAs Kontrafaktisk_historie.
- Counterfactual_history sameAs Kontrafaktische_Geschichte.
- Counterfactual_history sameAs Historia_contrafactual.
- Counterfactual_history sameAs Kontrafaktuaalinen_historia.