Meaning of alternative history | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Counterfactual history, a form of scientific speculation used by historians.
   uncountable, usually
2. A genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events (often occurring after a fixed point of divergence from real history).
   uncountable, usually

Examples

“One of the many criticisms that can be directed at alternative historians is their failure to think⟳ historically. For alternative history, the past is not a ‘foreign country’, but rather a country that closely resembles the Russian Empire of recent times.”

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