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Fallacies and thresholds: notes on the early evolution of alternate history
Schwellen und Trugschlüsse: Anmerkungen zur frühen Evolution der Alternate History
'The paper attempts to reconstruct the founding decade of the Science Fiction subgenre Alternate History. The basic premise is that Alternate History is a highly improbable genre whose success relied on the negotiation of new thresholds of acceptability and credibility. Adopting an evolutionary approach, the goal is to show how - after a series of unsuccessful earlier attempts - Alternate History …
Creator
- Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey
Subject
- History
- General History
- Social History, Historical Social Research
- conception of history
- method
- science fiction
- historical social research
- development
- historiography
- science of history
- …
- Technique
- Alternative music
- History
Type of item
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Creator
- Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey
Subject
- History
- General History
- Social History, Historical Social Research
- conception of history
- method
- science fiction
- historical social research
- development
- historiography
- science of history
- …
- Technique
- Alternative music
- History
Type of item
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
Creation date
- 2009
- 2009
Places
- Deutschland
- Germany
Provenance
- Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Source
- Historical Social Research, 34(2)
Identifier
- oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/28673
- 0172-6404
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/28673
- urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-286735
- https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.34.2009.2.99-117
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/28673/ssoar-hsr-2009-no_2__no_128-winthrop-young-fallacies_and_thresholds.pdf?sequence=1
- http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/J5CQU5EHOGKORT3KYL4CAWBYIWT2W2MW
Extent
- Seite(n): 99-117
Format
- application/pdf
Language
- eng
- eng
Year
- 2009
Providing country
- Germany
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-01-17T10:02:31.686Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-01-17T10:02:31.686Z