DEBATE TOPICS

TAKING SIDES : Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Western Civilization

 

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ISSUE 12. Was the Scientific Revolution Revolutionary?

 

 

ISSUE 13. Was the French Revolution Worth Its Human Costs?

 

 

ISSUE 14. Did British Policy Decisions Cause the Mass Emigration and Land Reforms That Followed the Irish Potato Famine?

 

 

ISSUE 15. Were Economic Factors Primarily Responsible for Nineteenth-Century British Imperialism?

 

 

ISSUE 16. Were German Militarism and Diplomacy Responsible for World War I?

 

 

ISSUE 17. Did the Bolshevik Revolution Improve the Lives of Soviet Women?

 

 

ISSUE 18. Was World War II the Result of Hitler's Master Plan?

 

 

ISSUE 19. Was Stalin Responsible for the Cold War?

 

 

ISSUE 22. Should Contemporary Feminism Ally Itself With Individualism?

 

 

ISSUE 23. Is Western Civilization in a State of Decline?

 

 


TAKING SIDES : Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in World History, Volume II

 

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ISSUE 1. Did the Industrial Revolution Lead to a Sexual Revolution?

 

 

ISSUE 4. Did the Meiji Restoration Constitute a Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Japan?

 

 

ISSUE 6. Were Indigenous Sex Workers in the British Empire Always Powerless?

 

 

ISSUE 7. Were Environmental Factors and Their Psychological Effect on Chinese Society Responsible for the Boxer Rebellion?

 

 

ISSUE 10. Was German "Eliminationist Antisemitism" Responsible for the Holocaust?

 

 

ISSUE 11. Should Emperor Hirohito Have Been Held Responsible for Japan's World War II Actions?

 

 

ISSUE 13. Are Chinese Confucianism and Western Capitalism Compatible?

 

 

ISSUE 14. Does Islamic Revivalism Challenge a Stable World Order?

 

 

ISSUE 15. Are Africa's Leaders Responsible for the Continent's Current Problems?