Obsession with Nazi or Confederate victories comes from 2 main things... A) the fact that likely readership considered them pivotal, and B) Some author's penchant for dystopia.
As for me, I always liked The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanly Robinson (who can really do no wrong in light of his Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, trilogy)
It's divergent thesis is "imagine that the black death decimated 99% of Europe rather than one or two thirds."
So, virtually no Christian influence on the world stage, for starters, and a world mostly dominated by China and an Islam that repopulates Europe, as well as some side notes of unlikely bedfellows like Samurai fleeing the destruction of their dynasties and making alliances with Native Americans, while disseminating information about primitive small pox cures (so the remaining Amerindian population a century post-new world discovery is far more significant than in our own world)
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Date: 29/11/10 20:31 (UTC)As for me, I always liked The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanly Robinson (who can really do no wrong in light of his Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, trilogy)
It's divergent thesis is "imagine that the black death decimated 99% of Europe rather than one or two thirds."
So, virtually no Christian influence on the world stage, for starters, and a world mostly dominated by China and an Islam that repopulates Europe, as well as some side notes of unlikely bedfellows like Samurai fleeing the destruction of their dynasties and making alliances with Native Americans, while disseminating information about primitive small pox cures (so the remaining Amerindian population a century post-new world discovery is far more significant than in our own world)
You mentioned borders....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt_Map.PNG