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Detachment and the Writing of History

Essays and Letters of Carl L. Becker

By: Carl L. Becker

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Detachment and the Writing of History

Essays and Letters of Carl L. Becker

By: Carl L. Becker

First published in 1958, Detachment and the Writing of History collects essays and letters by Carl L. Becker in which the noted historian outlines his views on the study of history, the craft of the historian, the art of teaching, and the historical evolution of the idea of democracy. Together, these invaluable writings demonstrate Becker's conviction of the moral seriousness of the historian's calling and of the importance of history as a factor, at once intellectual and artistically imaginative, in the life of society.

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Cornell University Press

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1501720988

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Cornell University

Founders and the Founding

By: Carl L. Becker

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Founders and the Founding

By: Carl L. Becker

This succinct and engaging history of the founding of Cornell University traces the institution's origins within the educational climate of mid-nineteenth-century America. Originally delivered as six lectures celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the opening the university, this book was first published by Cornell University Press in 1943.Beginning with a survey of collegiate education prior to the Civil War, Carl L. Becker details the history of the Morrill Land Grant College Act that made possible the establishment of Cornell (among other universities); deftly portrays the lives of the Ezra Cornell, who supplied the essential idea and funding for the university, and Andrew D. White, who, as legislator, lobbyist, and first university president, made Cornell's dream a reality; and desrcibes the events surrounding the incorporation and opening of the university in 1868.Also included in this book are fifteen documents pertaining to its founding, as well as Becker's 1940 lecture, "The Cornell Tradition: Freedom and Responsibility.

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0801476151

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Declaration of Independence

A Study in the History of Political Ideas

By: Carl L. Becker

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Declaration of Independence

A Study in the History of Political Ideas

By: Carl L. Becker

The Declaration of Independence Carl L. Becker's important study is an analysis of the concepts expressed in the Declaration. Here is a lucid explanation of what the Declaration really is, what views it sets forth, where those views arose, and how they have been accepted or modified by succeeding generations. A book that every American should read.

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Vintage

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0307823725

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Detachment and the Writing of History

Essays and Letters of Carl L. Becker

By: Carl L. Becker

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Declaration of Independence

A Study in the History of Political Ideas

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The Eve of the Revolution; A Chronicle of the Breach with England

Volume 11 of the Chronicles of America Series - in large print

By: Carl L. Becker

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The Eve of the Revolution; A Chronicle of the Breach with England

Volume 11 of the Chronicles of America Series - in large print

By: Carl L. Becker

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3368621955

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Cornell University

Founders and the Founding

By: Carl L. Becker

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Founders and the Founding

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The United States

An Experiment in Democracy

By: Carl Becker

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The United States

An Experiment in Democracy

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According to Carl Becker "if the framers of the Constitution could come back to earth and see what the federal government is doing to-day, they would all agree that this monstrous thing was no child of theirs; for to-day the federal government exercises as a matter of course powers which they never dreamed of." This prescient statement rings as true today as it did when Becker wrote An Experiment in Democracy nearly eighty years ago. This American classic is an engaging, gracefully rendered piece of historical literature as well as a non-ideological meditation on the "meaning of America." Carl Becker's ruminations are invariably provocative, notably wise, and remarkably enduring. He clearly believed in what has been called a "living Constitution," one that must be adapted to changing circumstances and imperatives in America life, and his faith in democracy seems to have strengthened as the decades progressed. In his new introduction, Michael Kammen places this American classic in historical perspective. Kammen sees Becker as more than an archival historian, but rather as a master of the "creative synthesis" looking at familiar sources in fresh ways and developing new points of view that were frequently revisionist and, on occasion, radically arresting. Much has changed between 1920 and the present; but Carl Becker's sagacity persists, just as his expository prose will continue to please a new generation of historians and students of American social history. Carl Becker was the author of "Kansas"; The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas; Modern History: The Rise of a Democratic, Scientific, and Industrial Civilization; "Benjamin Franklin"; "Everyman His Own Historian"; The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers; How New Will the Better World Be?; and Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life.

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Routledge

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1351302302

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The Eve of the Revolution; A Chronicle of the Breach with England

The Eve of the Revolution; A Chronicle of the Breach with England

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Cornell University

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