This is not an Alternate History, where the history is different to our own, but ours but the reasons things occurred the way they did are not the ones recorded in the history books. For example the Illuminantus books which posit a powerful secret organisation that made decisions about the world go in the fashion it wanted and left it to the apparent governments as to what was recorded as the truth. The genre would also include most conspiracy theorists' views of the Way The World Works.
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