Joseph Edgar Chamberlin: 3 books

Whether or not we believe that events are consciously ordered before their occurrence, we are compelled to admit the importance of Contingency in human affairs. If we believe in such an orderly and predetermined arrangement, the small circumstance upon which a great event may hinge becomes, in our...

Columbus and Lincoln, Waterloo and Bull Run—how history would have changed if just a few things had happened differently. You can look at the major events of history in one of three ways. First, you can see them as a series of mechanical causes and effects, tumbling one after the other in...

Whether or not we believe that events are consciously ordered before their occurrence, we are compelled to admit the importance of Contingency in human affairs.    If we believe in such an orderly and predetermined arrangement, the small circumstance upon which a great event may hinge becomes,...