Becker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus) 1873-1945

Overview

Works:	253 works in 1,376 publications in 6 languages and 27,536 library holdings
Genres:	History Textbooks Fiction Biography Sermons Historical fiction
Roles:	Author, Editor, Creator, Author of introduction, Contributor, Other, Honoree
Classifications:	JK128, 190

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Carl L Becker

The pragmatic revolt in American history: Carl Becker and Charles Beard by Cushing Strout( Book )
Carl Becker : a biographical study in American intellectual history by Burleigh Taylor Wilkins( Book )
Carl Becker: on history & the climate of opinion by Charlotte Watkins Smith( Book )
"What is the good of history?" Selected letters of Carl L. Becker, 1900 -1945 by Carl L Becker( Book )
Carl Becker on history and the American Revolution by Robert Eldon Brown( Book )

Cities on the Cedar : a portrait of Cedar Falls, Waterloo and Black Hawk County by Glenda Riley( Book )
A species of literary lion : essays on Morison, Freeman, De Voto and Becker, and the writing of history by David Edward Herold( )
Carl L. Becker by David Hugh Freeman( )
The historiography of Carl L. Becker by Harold E Bauman( Book )
Carl Becker's Heavenly city revisited by Raymond Oxley Rockwood( Book )
Between science and art : Henry Adams, Carl Becker, and history in America by Kent Blaser( )
Can historiography be objective? : an examination of the thought of Carl Lotus Becker and Kenneth Scott Latourette by Taesig Kim( )
Generous souls amid catastrophe : Charles Beard, James Harvey Robinson, Carl Becker, 1890-1925 by Donald Moore Scott( )
Carl Lotus Becker( )
History and the climate of opinion: an essay on Carl Becker by Charlotte Watkins Smith( )
Carl Lotus Becker (1873-1945) by Guy Stanton Ford( Book )
Toynbee, Braudel, Becker -- part I by William Hardy McNeill( Recording )
Carl Becker: historian; an appreciation( Book )
Carl Becker: a study of liberalism and the history of ideas by Carl Horwich( )
Carl Becker: Historian by Silver Burdett Company( Book )

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Most widely held works by Carl L Becker

The Declaration of independence : a study in the history of political ideas by Carl L Becker( Book )

129 editions published between 1922 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 3,422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Detailed examination of the political theories formulated in the Declaration of Independence and their historical antecedents

The heavenly city of the eighteenth century philosophers by Carl L Becker( Book )

127 editions published between 1932 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 2,615 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

These essays disclose the fallacy of believing that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. The author demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Ages of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that the philosophers "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials

The eve of the revolution : a chronicle of the breach with England by Carl L Becker( Book )

71 editions published between 1918 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,871 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Freedom and responsibility in the American way of life; five lectures delivered ... at the University of Michigan, December 1944 by Carl L Becker( Book )

87 editions published between 1945 and 1980 in English and Spanish and held by 1,489 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This collection of five lectures comprises a testament both challenging and reassuring: challenging because it clearly defines the magnitude of the dilemma which confronts modern democratic man in a technological society; reassuring, because it clearly states the philosophical ground for belief that modern democratic man can resolve that dilemma

Everyman his own historian; essays on history and politics by Carl L Becker( Book )

25 editions published between 1935 and 1987 in English and held by 1,202 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The history of political parties in the province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl L Becker( Book )

32 editions published between 1909 and 2013 in English and held by 1,166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Beginnings of the American people by Carl L Becker( Book )

54 editions published between 1915 and 2010 in English and held by 1,137 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Shelf2Life Colonial America (1492-1763) Collection is an intriguing set of pre-1923 volumes chronicling the people and events that shaped the United States in its early years

How new will the better world be? A discussion of post-war reconstruction by Carl L Becker( Book )

40 editions published between 1944 and 1971 in English and held by 1,036 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Modern democracy by Carl L Becker( Book )

51 editions published between 1941 and 1964 in English and German and held by 1,001 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Progress and power by Carl L Becker( Book )

34 editions published between 1936 and 1965 in English and Italian and held by 869 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"'Lectures delivered at Stanford University, on the RaYmond Fred West Memorial Foundation, in April 1935.'"

Detachment and the writing of history : essays and letters of Carl L. Becker by Carl L Becker( Book )

2 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 671 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Safeguarding civil liberty today; the Edward L. Bernays lectures of 1944 given at Cornell university by Carl L Becker( Book )

15 editions published between 1943 and 1949 in English and held by 532 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New liberties for old by Carl L Becker( Book )

18 editions published between 1941 and 1959 in English and Undetermined and held by 521 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Spirit of '76, and other essays by Carl L Becker( Book )

20 editions published between 1927 and 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 490 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Modern history; the rise of a democratic, scientific, and industrial civilization by Carl L Becker( Book )

32 editions published between 1931 and 1958 in English and held by 487 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this edition of Modern History Chapter XXIII, the New World of Today, has been brought thoroughly up to date. The changes comprise the rewriting of several sections and the addition of new paragraphs and pages to take account of recent events, as well as the addition of a new section on the Great Depression

A survey of European civilization by Wallace K Ferguson( Book )

30 editions published between 1936 and 1947 in English and held by 420 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Benjamin Franklin, a biographical sketch by Carl L Becker( Book )

10 editions published in 1946 in English and held by 363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The United States; an experiment in democracy by Carl L Becker( Book )

15 editions published between 1920 and 2012 in English and held by 330 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Detachment and the writing of history; essays and letters of Carl L. Becker by Carl L Becker( Book )

28 editions published between 1910 and 1972 in English and Undetermined and held by 327 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Napoleon in review by George Gordon Andrews( Book )

5 editions published in 1939 in English and held by 309 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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