Taking sides
Subtitle: clashing views in United States history, volume 1 : the colonial period to reconstruction
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle
Contributors: Madaras, Larry.; SoRelle, James M.
Edition: 12th ed.
Series: McGraw-Hill contemporary learning series
Publisher: McGraw Hill Contemporary Learning Series
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dubuque, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780073527239
Subjects: United States -- History.; United States -- Historiography.
Description: [This book] is a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to controversies in world history. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading historians and commentators on world history, reflect a variety of viewpoints and have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate framework ... By requiring students to analyze opposing viewpoints and reach considered judgments, [this book] develops students' critical thinking skills. -Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Colonial society: Is history true?; Was disease the key factor in the depopulation of Native Americans in the Americas?; Was Colonial culture uniquely American?; Were the first colonists in the Chesapeake Region ignorant, lazy, and unambitious?; Did Colonial New England women enjoy significant economic autonomy?; title: Revolution and the new nation: Did the American Revolution produce a Christian nation?; Were the founding fathers democratic reformers?; Was Thomas Jefferson a political compromiser?; Was James Madison an effective wartime president?; Was the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 designed to protect the Latin American countries from European intervention? Did the election of 1828 represent a democratic revolt of the people?; title: Antebellum America: Did the industrial revolution provide more economic opportunites for women in the 1830s?; Did slavery destroy the black family?; Was the Mexican War an exercise in American imperialism?; Were the abolitionists "unrestrained fanatics"?; title: Conflict and resolution: Was the Confederacy defeated because of it's "loss of will?"; Did Abraham Lincoln free the slaves?; Was reconstruction a "splendid failure"?.