Series Information

 

Battleground: Business Cover Image

 

Battleground Series

 

 


There is no more exciting way to learn than by exploring the controversies surrounding an event or issue. Yet, in the digital age, such research can overwhelm novice scholars. The Battleground series solves that problem, making it easy to study and understand issues that have generated debate in recent years and across time.

Designed for student researchers, the Battleground series presents today's critical issues in an accessible, authoritative format, pairing original essays by topic experts with selected primary sources in convenient two-volume sets.

Titles in the Battleground series contextualize and clarify broad issues fraught with multiple controversies, breaking them into separate, logical, and manageable components that facilitate understanding. Each two-volume title organizes approximately 100 issue-related topics, with each topic explored in an essay featuring multiple subheadings and multimedia resource lists.

Key individuals, events, subtopics, data points, documents, and perspectives are identified and presented in balanced, comprehensive accounts, while numerous, high-interest sidebars offer statistics and case studies that bring the controversies to life. Issues addressed by the series are chosen for their universal appeal, and many offer curriculum connections.

Highlights
 Focuses on key, controversial issues that have universal appeal and offer curriculum connections
 Provides comprehensive coverage of complex subjects in accessible, easy-to-navigate, individual essays
 Offers readers thought-provoking, but balanced treatment that will help them understand all sides of the selected issues

Features
 A-Z organization of approximately 100 essays clarifying issue-related topics
 A chronology of important events
 Sidebars focusing on intriguing facts, critical turning points, and important personalities and events
 Further Reading lists with each individual essay
 Cross-references and a Reader's Guide to Related Topics, providing multiple access points
 An annotated bibliography of print and electronic resources