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The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, is an anthology of twenty essays and fourteen sidebars dealing with counterfactual history. It was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1999, ISBN 0-399-14576-1, and this book as well as its two sequels, What If? 2 and What Ifs? of American History, were edited by Robert Cowley.
The book collects previously published essays in which Berlin discusses the thoughts of 20th century ideologic dissenters who were opposed to the prevailing wisdom of their time. A wide range of individuals are discussed including Machiavelli , Giambattista Vico , Montesquieu , Alexander Herzen , Georges Sorel , Verdi , and Moses Hess [ 1 ]
Based on the book with the same title, the show portrays a 1962 in which the Axis powers won World War II and divided the Americas. 2016 11.22.63: Based on the book 11/22/63 by Stephen King, in which the main character goes back in time trying to save John F. Kennedy and altering the course of events. 2017 Neo Yokio
A revised edition with the alternate title If: or, History Rewritten was also released by the American Viking Press in 1931, deleting the General Strike essay and adding one new essay along with reprints of two older but previously uncollected ones: "If the Dutch Had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam" by Hendrik Willem van Loon.
The historian Arthur O. Lovejoy (1873–1962) coined the phrase history of ideas [8] and initiated its systematic study [9] in the early decades of the 20th century. Johns Hopkins University was a "fertile cradle" to Lovejoy's history of ideas; [10] he worked there as a professor of history, from 1910 to 1939, and for decades he presided over the regular meetings of the History of Ideas Club. [11]
Simon Heffer in The Daily Telegraph said that "If there is a better book on George Orwell I have yet to discover it". David Aaronovitch in New Statesman called Colls "a lovely writer, fearless in a way that academics too often are not". David Evans in The Independent said that "Colls writes like an offbeat mixture of Isaiah Berlin and Clive James".
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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas; All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten; Alphabet of the Imagination; America and Americans; Anarchism and Other Essays; And the Judges Said; The Anthropocene Reviewed; An Anthropologist on Mars; Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea; Arguably; Aspects of Scientific Explanation ...