Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 496 g
Reihe: Taking Sides
Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 496 g
Reihe: Taking Sides
ISBN: 978-0-07-804996-5
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Taking Sides volumes present current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript or challenge questions. Taking Sides readers feature an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites. An online Instructor’s Resource Guide with testing material is available for each volume. Using Taking Sides in the Classroom is also an excellent instructor resource.
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TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views in United States History, Volume 1: The Colonial Period to Reconstruction, Fourteenth EditionTable of Contents
TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views in United States History, Volume 1: The Colonial Period to Reconstruction,
Fourteenth Edition
Unit 1 Colonial Society Issue 1. Is History True?YES: Oscar Handlin, from Truth in History (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979)NO: William H. McNeill, from “Mythistory, or Truth, Myth, History, and Historians,” The American Historical Review (February 1986)Oscar Handlin insists that historical truth is absolute and knowable by historians who adopt the scientific method of research to discover factual evidence that provides both a chronology and context for their findings. William McNeill argues that historical truth is general and evolutionary and is discerned by different groups at different times and in different places in a subjective manner that has little to do with a scientifically absolute methodology.Issue 2. Did the Chinese Discover America?YES: Gavin Menzies, from 1421: The Year China Discovered America (William Morrow, 2003)NO: Robert Finlay, from “How Not to (Re)Write World History: Gavin Menzies and the Chinese Discovery of America,” Journal of World History (June 2004)Gavin Menzies surmises that between 1421 and 1423 a Chinese fleet spent four months exploring the Pacific coastline of North America and leaving behind substantial evidence to support his contention that the Chinese discovered America long before the arrival of European explorers. Robert Finlay accuses Menzies of ignoring the basic rules of historical study and logic to concoct an implausible interpretation of Chinese discovery based upon a misreading of Chinese imperial policy, misrepresentation of sources, and conjecture that has no evidentiary base.Issue 3. Was Disease the Key Factor in the Depopulation of Native Americans in the Americas? YES: Colin G. Calloway, from New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)NO: David S. Jones, from “Virgin Soils Revisited,” William & Mary Quarterly (October 2003)Colin Calloway says that while Native Americans confronted numerous diseases in the Americas, traditional Indian healing practices failed to offer much protection from the diseases that were introduced by Europeans beginning in the late-fifteenth century and which decimated the indigenous peoples. David Jones recognizes the disastrous impact of European diseases on Native Americans, but he insists that Indian depopulation was also a consequence of the forces of poverty, malnutrition, environmental.Issue 4. Was the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria Caused by a Fear of Women?YES: Carol F. Karlsen, from The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (W. W. Norton, 1987)NO: Laurie Winn Carlson, from A Fever in Salem (Ivan R. Dee, 1999)Carol Karlsen contends that the belief that woman was evil existed implicitly at the core of Puritan culture and explains why alleged witches, as threats to the desir
