Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences is a 1991 book by Geoffrey Hawthorn, professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge.

The book is credited with legitimizing the academic field of counterfactual history.

[1] The book explores three points of divergence: the Black Death, the Korean War, and the influence of Duccio.

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