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"Popular Controversies in World History: Investigating History’s Intriguing Questions" ed. by Steven L. Danver
ABC-CLIO, Greenwood Publishing | 2011 | ISBN: 1598840770 9781598840773 9781598840780 | 1452 pages | PDF | 49 MB
This book offers uniquely compelling and educational examinations of pivotal events and puzzling phenomena, from the earliest evidence of human activity to controversial events of the 20th century. From the geographic location of human origins, to the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, to the innocence—or guilt—of Sacco and Vanzetti, The book provides four volumes on the ongoing debates that have captivated both the historical community and the public at large.
In each chapter, established experts offer credible opposing arguments pertaining to specific debates, providing readers with resources for independent critical thinking on the issue.
This book allows students, scholars, and other interested readers to actively engage in some of the most intriguing conundrums facing historians today.
Contents
Introduction
Contributor List
Volume One: Prehistory and Early Civilizations
1 Tool use is characteristic of hominids and apes, but not of other animal species.
2 Agriculture, or the domestication of plants, diffused from its start in the Middle East to the rest of the world.
3 The Great Flood referred to in the Book of Noah and in Gilgamesh resulted from the flooding of the Black Sea by an influx of higher-level water from the Mediterranean via the Dardenelles and Bosporus
4 Much of what is now considered to be Classic culture actually has Afroasiatic roots.
5 China’s head start in technological innovation was retarded by its efficient and centralized imperial government.
6 The findings of Neolithic drawings at Qatalhoyuk in Turkey are a fraud. (Heated scholarly debate over the authenticity of
The existence of Atlantis is not entirely mythical.
8 Lemuria is not the invention of religious enthusiasts, but rather, actually existed.
9 Native American peoples came to North and South America by boat as well as by land bridge.
10 The ancient Egyptians used volunteers, not slaves, to build the pyramids.
11 Ancient Egyptian obelisks were raised by a hitherto undiscovered technology.
12 The Beta Israel (or Falasha) People of Ethiopia are one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
13 Ancient findings of Ancient Babylonian cities confirm the Old Testament.
Volume Two: The AncientWorld to the Early Middle Ages
1 The Ark of the Covenant is in Axum, Ethiopia. (This idea has led to many investigations, publications, and media reports.)
2 The Greek city-states were "democratic" by our modern American definition.
3 The Ogham Celtic script is derived from the Norse Rune script.
4 The "Trial of Socrates," described by Plato, was an actual event that occurred in 399 BCE, rather than merely a philosophical device used by Sophists in teaching Apologia.
5 Pushy amitra Sunga, a Hindu ruler in the second century BCE, was a great persecutor of the Buddhists.
6 The Shroud of Turin is actually the wrapping shroud of Jesus.
7 A Staffordshire inscription points to the location of the Holy Grail; it may be in Wales.
8 Nestorius did not intend to argue that Christ had a dual nature, but that view became labeled Nestorianism.
9 The Celtic Church that arose after 400 CE as distinct from Roman Catholicism is a modern construct, rather than a historical reality.
10 The inhabitants of Easter Island who erected the monoliths were from South America, not from Polynesia.
11 The Roman Empire’s collapse was primarily due to social and political problems rather than the Barbarian invasions.
12 The Hawaiian and other Polynesian seafarers developed navigation methods based on observation of constellations and currents, so that they could sail intentionally from Tahiti to Hawaii and back
13 The Toltecs and Maya developed wheels for religious reasons, but not for wheelbarrows or other practical uses. The reason is that they had sufficient slave labor.
14 Native American languages can be traced to three grand linguistic roots.
15 The historical Buddha was born in 563 BCE and lived to 483 BCE.
Volume Three: The High Middle Ages to the ModernWorld
1 North American rune stones point to extensive exploration by the Norse of North America.
2 The Ancestral Puebloans lined up their communities so that, although miles apart, they could signal each other with fires by line of sight to communicate.
3 The Mayan kingdoms died out from disease. (Earlier views held Mayan decline to be cyclical.)
4 The Chinese explorations of the 1420s reached both coasts of North and South America.
5 The technologies that allowed Europe to dominate the world were all imported from the East: compass, lateen-rigged sail, gunpowder, windmill, stirrup, movable type
6 Richard III was innocent of the charge of murder.
7 Columbus intentionally underestimated the circumference of Earth in order to get funding.
8 European pathogens caused the decline of Cahokia and Mississippian mound builders.
9 Shakespeare’s plays were written by someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.
10 Galileo willfully violated the injunctions of the Inquisition and was thus guilty at his 1633 trial.
11 The Man in the Iron Mask was Count Ercole Antonio Mattioli.
12 Prince Louis Charles (Louis XVII), also known as the "Lost Dauphin," survived captivity during the French Revolution and was allowed to escape in 1795.
13 Charles Darwin got his idea of evolution from "social Darwinist" Herbert Spencer who published first.
14 Slavery was unprofitable for slave owners.
15 Lincoln maneuvered the South into firing the first shot at Fort Sumter.
Volume Four: The Twentieth Century to the Present
Popular Controversies in World History, Volume Four: The Twentieth Century to the Present
1 The Progressive movement in the United States and in other countries in the first decade of the 20th century represented...
2 The captain of the ship Californian was guilty of gross negligence in not coming to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic
3 The assassins of Archduke Ferdinand were funded by the Serbian government.
4 The deaths of over one million Armenians in Turkey were due to a Turkish government policy of genocide.
5 The British had shipped weapons aboard the Lusitania, in effect using women and children as "human shields" for a war cargo.
6 Woodrow Wilson’s neutrality in World War I was so blatantly pro-British that he forced the Germans into attacking U.S. shipping.
7 Mahatma Gandhi would not have been a world leader without the influence of Rabindranath Tagore.
8 Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent.
9 Warren Harding was murdered, rather than dying of food poisoning.
10 Marcus Garvey was "railroaded."
11 Franklin D. Roosevelt had knowledge of an impending Japanese attack and used Pearl Harbor as an excuse to spur American entry into World War II.
12 Alger Hiss’s 1950 conviction for espionage was not an example of Cold War hysteria. He was a Soviet spy and deserved his punishment.
13 John F. Kennedy was elected U.S. president in 1960 only because of voter fraud committed by his connections in the mafia.
14 Lee Harvey Oswald was not the sole assassin of John F. Kennedy.
15 Considering the refusal of Saddam Hussein to comply with United Nations-imposed inspections, it was reasonable for George W. Bush and his advisers to assume
Index
About the Editor
Download
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"Popular Controversies in World History: Investigating History’s Intriguing Questions" ed. by Steven L. Danver
ABC-CLIO, Greenwood Publishing | 2011 | ISBN: 1598840770 9781598840773 9781598840780 | 1452 pages | PDF | 49 MB
This book offers uniquely compelling and educational examinations of pivotal events and puzzling phenomena, from the earliest evidence of human activity to controversial events of the 20th century. From the geographic location of human origins, to the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, to the innocence—or guilt—of Sacco and Vanzetti, The book provides four volumes on the ongoing debates that have captivated both the historical community and the public at large.
In each chapter, established experts offer credible opposing arguments pertaining to specific debates, providing readers with resources for independent critical thinking on the issue.
This book allows students, scholars, and other interested readers to actively engage in some of the most intriguing conundrums facing historians today.
Contents
Introduction
Contributor List
Volume One: Prehistory and Early Civilizations
1 Tool use is characteristic of hominids and apes, but not of other animal species.
2 Agriculture, or the domestication of plants, diffused from its start in the Middle East to the rest of the world.
3 The Great Flood referred to in the Book of Noah and in Gilgamesh resulted from the flooding of the Black Sea by an influx of higher-level water from the Mediterranean via the Dardenelles and Bosporus
4 Much of what is now considered to be Classic culture actually has Afroasiatic roots.
5 China’s head start in technological innovation was retarded by its efficient and centralized imperial government.
6 The findings of Neolithic drawings at Qatalhoyuk in Turkey are a fraud. (Heated scholarly debate over the authenticity of
The existence of Atlantis is not entirely mythical.
8 Lemuria is not the invention of religious enthusiasts, but rather, actually existed.
9 Native American peoples came to North and South America by boat as well as by land bridge.
10 The ancient Egyptians used volunteers, not slaves, to build the pyramids.
11 Ancient Egyptian obelisks were raised by a hitherto undiscovered technology.
12 The Beta Israel (or Falasha) People of Ethiopia are one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
13 Ancient findings of Ancient Babylonian cities confirm the Old Testament.
Volume Two: The AncientWorld to the Early Middle Ages
1 The Ark of the Covenant is in Axum, Ethiopia. (This idea has led to many investigations, publications, and media reports.)
2 The Greek city-states were "democratic" by our modern American definition.
3 The Ogham Celtic script is derived from the Norse Rune script.
4 The "Trial of Socrates," described by Plato, was an actual event that occurred in 399 BCE, rather than merely a philosophical device used by Sophists in teaching Apologia.
5 Pushy amitra Sunga, a Hindu ruler in the second century BCE, was a great persecutor of the Buddhists.
6 The Shroud of Turin is actually the wrapping shroud of Jesus.
7 A Staffordshire inscription points to the location of the Holy Grail; it may be in Wales.
8 Nestorius did not intend to argue that Christ had a dual nature, but that view became labeled Nestorianism.
9 The Celtic Church that arose after 400 CE as distinct from Roman Catholicism is a modern construct, rather than a historical reality.
10 The inhabitants of Easter Island who erected the monoliths were from South America, not from Polynesia.
11 The Roman Empire’s collapse was primarily due to social and political problems rather than the Barbarian invasions.
12 The Hawaiian and other Polynesian seafarers developed navigation methods based on observation of constellations and currents, so that they could sail intentionally from Tahiti to Hawaii and back
13 The Toltecs and Maya developed wheels for religious reasons, but not for wheelbarrows or other practical uses. The reason is that they had sufficient slave labor.
14 Native American languages can be traced to three grand linguistic roots.
15 The historical Buddha was born in 563 BCE and lived to 483 BCE.
Volume Three: The High Middle Ages to the ModernWorld
1 North American rune stones point to extensive exploration by the Norse of North America.
2 The Ancestral Puebloans lined up their communities so that, although miles apart, they could signal each other with fires by line of sight to communicate.
3 The Mayan kingdoms died out from disease. (Earlier views held Mayan decline to be cyclical.)
4 The Chinese explorations of the 1420s reached both coasts of North and South America.
5 The technologies that allowed Europe to dominate the world were all imported from the East: compass, lateen-rigged sail, gunpowder, windmill, stirrup, movable type
6 Richard III was innocent of the charge of murder.
7 Columbus intentionally underestimated the circumference of Earth in order to get funding.
8 European pathogens caused the decline of Cahokia and Mississippian mound builders.
9 Shakespeare’s plays were written by someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.
10 Galileo willfully violated the injunctions of the Inquisition and was thus guilty at his 1633 trial.
11 The Man in the Iron Mask was Count Ercole Antonio Mattioli.
12 Prince Louis Charles (Louis XVII), also known as the "Lost Dauphin," survived captivity during the French Revolution and was allowed to escape in 1795.
13 Charles Darwin got his idea of evolution from "social Darwinist" Herbert Spencer who published first.
14 Slavery was unprofitable for slave owners.
15 Lincoln maneuvered the South into firing the first shot at Fort Sumter.
Volume Four: The Twentieth Century to the Present
Popular Controversies in World History, Volume Four: The Twentieth Century to the Present
1 The Progressive movement in the United States and in other countries in the first decade of the 20th century represented...
2 The captain of the ship Californian was guilty of gross negligence in not coming to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic
3 The assassins of Archduke Ferdinand were funded by the Serbian government.
4 The deaths of over one million Armenians in Turkey were due to a Turkish government policy of genocide.
5 The British had shipped weapons aboard the Lusitania, in effect using women and children as "human shields" for a war cargo.
6 Woodrow Wilson’s neutrality in World War I was so blatantly pro-British that he forced the Germans into attacking U.S. shipping.
7 Mahatma Gandhi would not have been a world leader without the influence of Rabindranath Tagore.
8 Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent.
9 Warren Harding was murdered, rather than dying of food poisoning.
10 Marcus Garvey was "railroaded."
11 Franklin D. Roosevelt had knowledge of an impending Japanese attack and used Pearl Harbor as an excuse to spur American entry into World War II.
12 Alger Hiss’s 1950 conviction for espionage was not an example of Cold War hysteria. He was a Soviet spy and deserved his punishment.
13 John F. Kennedy was elected U.S. president in 1960 only because of voter fraud committed by his connections in the mafia.
14 Lee Harvey Oswald was not the sole assassin of John F. Kennedy.
15 Considering the refusal of Saddam Hussein to comply with United Nations-imposed inspections, it was reasonable for George W. Bush and his advisers to assume
Index
About the Editor
Download
http://uploaded.net/file/0c7ybqlr/PopularControversiesWorldHistory11.pdf