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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Evans, Richard J.

Altered pasts: counterfactuals in history / Richard J. Evans.

pages cm.—(The Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61168-537-4 (cloth: alk. paper)— ISBN 978-1-61168-538-1 (pbk.: alk. paper)— ISBN 978-1-61168-539-8 (ebook)

1. Imaginary histories. 2. History—Philosophy. 3. Historiography—Political aspects—Great Britain. 4. Great Britain—History—20th century. 5. Right and left (Political science)—Great Britain. I. Title.

D21.3.E87 2013

901—dc23

2013029719