Perspectives
Description
Six classroom-tested debates are featured in this innovative sourcebook. Built on primary documents, each debate asks students to step into the shoes of historical characters and argue for a position. As author Joseph T. Stuart says in the Introduction, "Debates have proven to be among the most successful tools in my experience as an instructor to encourage students to work with primary sources." The book includes 3 debates from the pre-1500 period and 3 from the post-1500 period, plus a debate rubric, and post-debate questions and activities. Also included are the full texts of 40 primary sources utilized during the debate process.
This sourcebook is suitable for high school and college courses in World Civilization/History and Western Civilization.
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- Intro
- iPerspectives: Debates in World Civilization
- iiAbout the Editor
- iiiAcknowledgments
- ivIntroduction
- 1Debate Rubric
- Post-Debate Questions
- Essay Topic
- Post-Debate Activity
- 5Debates
- Debate 1: "The Chinese Emperor resolves to close the Silk Road to Buddhist pilgrims."
- Positive Team
- Negative Team
- 9Debate 2: "Emperor Diocletian resolves that the Christians are a threat to the Roman Empire and should be persecuted."
- Positive Team
- Negative Team
- 13Debate 3: "King John should sign the Magna Carta."
- Positive Team
- Negative Team
- 16Debate 4: "Thomas More is guilty of treason."
- Positive Team
- Negative Team
- 19Debate 5: "The Second Continental Congress resolves that the American colonies should be independent."
- Positive Team
- Negative Team
- 23Debate 6: "Globalization is good."
- Positive Team
- Negative Team
- 27Documents
- Noble Eightfold Path
- 45Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka
- 64Analects of Confucius
- 102Mandate of Heaven
- 105Canon of Filial Piety
- 116Han Feizi
- 123Huan Kuan: Discourses on Salt and Iron
- 130Han Yu: "Memorial on the Buddha's Bones"
- 134Twelve Tables of Roman Law
- 154Marcus Cato (the Elder): On Agriculture
- 159Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
- 175Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan: Letters on Treatment of the Christians
- 178Letter of the Smyrnaeans on the Martyrdom of Polycarp
- 188Epistle to Diognetus
- 199Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
- 204Julian the Apostate: Letter to Arsacius
- 206Pope Gelasius I: Letter to Emperor Anastasius
- 207Bernard Atton, Viscount of Carcassonne: Charter of Homage and Fealty
- 210Henry IV of Germany and Pope Gregory VII: Letter and Ban
- 213
- 214Magna Carta
- 224Martin Luther: Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
- Act of Supremacy
- 229
- 230First Act of Succession
- 241Second Act of Succession
- 244Treasons Act
- 248The Trial of Thomas More
- 263James Otis: The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
- 267Patrick Henry: Resolutions in Opposition to the Stamp Act
- 269John Dickinson: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
- 280Proclamation of 1763
- 288Samuel Seabury (as "A. W. Farmer"): A View of the Controversy between Great Britain and Her Colonies
- 300Olive Branch Petition
- 305
- 306Proclamation by the King for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition
- 308The Second Continental Congress Responds to King George III's Proclamation of Rebellion
- 312Nzinga Mbemba: Appeal to the King of Portugal
- 316Andrew Ure: The Philosophy of Manufactures
- 323Yukichi Fukuzawa: Western Civilization as Our Goal
- 327Yukichi Fukuzawa: "Good-bye Asia"
- 331Feng Guifen: "On the Adoption of Western Learning"
- Hu Shi: "Our Attitude toward Modern Western Civilization"
- 334Osama bin Laden: Declaration of Jihad against Americans
