Telling It Like It Wasn't Political Sociology Written in the sixteenth century

Written in the sixteenth century

even though most of them are hand-me-downs from her three older brothers

and traverses a land riddled with a multitude of obstacles

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Telling It Like It Wasn't Political Sociology Written in the sixteenth centuryInventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy or as pop culture fodder, but in Telling It Like It Wasnt, Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down as