Counterfactual history

Counterfactual history (also virtual history) is a form of historiography that attempts to answer the What if? questions that arise from counterfactual conditions.^[1] Counterfactual history seeks by "conjecturing on what did not happen, or what might have happened, in order to understand what did happen."^[2] It has produced a literary genre which is variously called alternate history, speculative history, allohistory, and hypothetical history.^[3]^[4]

^ Bunzl, Martin (June 2004). "Counterfactual History: A User's Guide". The American Historical Review. 109 (3): 845–858. doi:10.1086/530560. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 10.1086/530560.
^ Black, Jeremy; MacRaild, Donald M. (2007). Studying History (3rd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. p. 125. ISBN 9781403987341.
^ Cite error: The named reference Arnold was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Singles, Kathleen (2011-06-01). "'What If?' and Beyond: Counterfactual History in Literature". The Cambridge Quarterly. 40 (2): 180–188. doi:10.1093/camqtly/bfr007. ISSN 0008-199X.

[1] Bunzl, Martin (June 2004). "Counterfactual History: A User's Guide". The American Historical Review. 109 (3): 845–858. doi:10.1086/530560. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 10.1086/530560.

[Black_Macraild-2] Black, Jeremy; MacRaild, Donald M. (2007). Studying History (3rd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. p. 125. ISBN 9781403987341.

[Arnold-3] Cite error: The named reference Arnold was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[ksingles-4] Singles, Kathleen (2011-06-01). "'What If?' and Beyond: Counterfactual History in Literature". The Cambridge Quarterly. 40 (2): 180–188. doi:10.1093/camqtly/bfr007. ISSN 0008-199X.

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