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Carl L. Becker (1873–1945)

Autor(a) de The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

29+ Works 799 Membros 3 Críticas 1 Favorited

About the Author

Few historians of the United States have written as well as Carl Becker, Cornell University's famous professor of modern European history. Becker was born in Iowa and studied at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1907. His study The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century mostrar mais Philosophers (1932), is a classic, as is The Heavenly City Revisited. Becker taught at Dartmouth and the University of Kansas before joining the Cornell faculty in 1917. After his retirement in 1941, Beck was professor emeritus and university historian at Cornell. His work continues to remain a model for writers of history, with its economy of words, keen analytical sense, and graceful style. As a distinguished essayist, practicing historian, and apostle of democracy, Becker almost always made freedom and responsibility his themes. Beck died in 1945. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras por Carl L. Becker

Beginnings of the American People (1915) 23 exemplares
Progress and Power (1949) 17 exemplares
Modern Democracy (1941) 13 exemplares
How New Will the Better World Be? (1947) 11 exemplares
The Spirit of '76 (1971) 5 exemplares

Associated Works

The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence (1968) — Contribuidor — 267 exemplares
The Philosophy of History in Our Time (1959) — Contribuidor — 217 exemplares
A Survey of European Civilization (1936) — Editor — 106 exemplares
The Range of Philosophy: Introductory Readings (1964) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares

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Obras
29
Also by
7
Membros
799
Popularidade
#31,915
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
3
ISBN
39
Línguas
1
Marcado como favorito
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