Includes bibliographical references

Did the industrial revolution lead to a sexual revolution? -- Was the French revolution worth its human cost? -- Does Napoleon Bonaparte deserve his historical reputation as a great general? -- Did British poliby decisions cause emigration and land reforms following the Irish potato famine? -- Did the Meiji restoration constitute a revolution in nineteenth-century Japan? -- Was popular opinion a significant ingredient in nineteenth-century British imperialism? -- Was China's Boxer Rebellion caused by environmental factors? -- Did Prussian militarism provoke World War I? -- Was the Treaty of Versailles responsible for World War II? -- Did the Bolshevik revolution improve the lives of Soviet women? -- Was German "eliminationist anti-Semitism" responsible for the holocaust? -- Was Stalin responsible for the Korean War? -- Are Chinese Confucianism and western capitalism compatible? -- Was ethnic hatred primarily responsible for the Rwandan genocide of 1994? -- Does Islamic revivalism challenge a stable world order? -- Have Afghan women been liberated from oppression? -- Is the influence of the European Union in world affairs increasing? -- Is India's secular democracy severely threatened by religious nationalism? -- Will the so-called Arab Spring benefit the region?