Free Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals by Niall Ferguson

Contributors
    NIALL FERGUSON is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford. He recently published Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927 (1995), which was shortlisted for the History Today Book of the Year award. He has written numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century financial history, and is currently writing a history of Rothschilds.
    JOHN ADAMSON is a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and has published extensively on the political and cultural history of seventeenth-century Britain. He won the Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize in 1990, and is currently editing the official history of The Commons: 1640-1660 for the History of Parliament Trust.
    JONATHAN CLARK is Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas. His publications include The Dynamics of Change (1982), English Society 1688-1832 (1985), Revolution and Rebellion (1986), The Language of Liberty, 1660-1832: Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World (1993) and Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism (1994). He has edited The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 1742-1763 (1988) and Ideas and Politics in Modern Britain (1989).
    ALVIN JACKSON is Reader in Modern History at the Queen’s University of Belfast, and has been Lecturer in Modern Irish History at University College Dublin and John Burns Visiting Professor of Irish Studies at Boston College. He is author of The Ulster Party (1989), Sir Edward Carson (1993) and Colonel Edward Saunderson: Land and Loyalty in Victorian Ireland (1995). He is at present working on the Blackwell History of Modern Ireland.
    ANDREW ROBERTS was an Honorary Senior Scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His books include The Holy Fox, A Biography of Lord Halifax (1991), Eminent Churchillians (1994) and The Aachen Memorandum (1995). He is currently writing the authorized biography of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.
    MICHAEL BURLEIGH is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Wales, Cardiff. His books include Prussian Society and the German Order (1984), Germany Turns Eastwards: A Study of ‘Ostforschung’ in the Third Reich (1988), The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 (with Wolfgang Wippermann, 1991), Death and Deliverance: ‘Euthanasia’ in Germany, 1900-1945 (1994) and Confronting the Nazi Past (1996). His essays, Ethics and Extermination: Essays on Nazi Genocide will be published shortly. His award-winning Channel 4 Documentaries include Selling Murder and Heil Herbie.
    JONATHAN HASLAM is a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Assistant Director of Studies in International Relations at the Cambridge University Centre of International Studies. He is the author of The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective Security in Europe 1933-1939 (1984) and The Soviet Union and the Threat from the East 1933-1941 (1992). He has recently completed a biography of E. H. Carr and is currently writing The Realist Tradition in International Relations: from Machiavelli to Waltz.
    DIANE KUNZ is Associate Professor of History at Yale University. She is the author of The Battle for Britain’s Gold Standard in 1931 (1987) and The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis (1991). Her most recent book is Butter and Guns: America’s Cold War Economic Diplomacy.
     
    MARK ALMOND is Lecturer in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford. His most recent book is Revolution: 500 Years of Struggle for Change (1996). His other books include Europe’s Backyard War: the War in the Balkans (1994) and The Rise and Fall of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu (1992).

Acknowledgements
    In a collaborative volume, it is for individual contributors to express their gratitude in their notes. The editor, however, has the right to a list of acknowledgements in a