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

Overview

Works:	256 works in 1,426 publications in 5 languages and 27,551 library holdings
Genres:	History Lectures Textbooks Fiction Biography Sermons Historical fiction
Roles:	Author, Editor, Contributor, Other, Author of introduction, Honoree

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 Freeman Hawke( )
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( )
The historiography of Carl L. Becker by Harold E Bauman( Book )
Carl Becker's Heavenly city revisited by Raymond Oxley Rockwood( Book )
Carl Lotus Becker (1873-1945) by Guy Stanton Ford( Book )
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 Becker: a study of liberalism and the history of ideas by Carl Horwich( )
Harold Laski collection by Harold Joseph Laski( )
Carl Becker: historian; an appreciation( Book )
Carl Becker and the historian as priest and prophet by R. Kent Fielding( )

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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 )

138 editions published between 1922 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 3,470 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 )

121 editions published between 1932 and 2004 in English and Chinese and held by 2,524 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 1,852 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 )

90 editions published between 1945 and 1980 in 3 languages and held by 1,488 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 )

34 editions published between 1932 and 2009 in English and held by 1,288 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

33 editions published between 1909 and 2013 in English and held by 1,167 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

60 editions published between 1915 and 2010 in English and held by 1,125 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 )

41 editions published between 1944 and 1971 in English and held by 1,018 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 997 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

31 editions published between 1910 and 1972 in English and held by 986 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 534 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New liberties for old by Carl L Becker( Book )

18 editions published between 1941 and 1959 in English and held by 523 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

33 editions published between 1931 and 1958 in English and held by 488 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

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

20 editions published between 1927 and 1974 in English and held by 482 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

32 editions published between 1936 and 1947 in English and held by 421 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Part I. to 1660 by Wallace K. Ferguson, Part II. dince 16660 by Geoffrey Bruun

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

10 editions published in 1946 in English and held by 362 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

16 editions published between 1920 and 2017 in English and held by 328 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"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."--Provided by publisher

Napoleon in review by George Gordon Andrews( Book )

6 editions published in 1939 in English and Undetermined and held by 311 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cornell university: founders and the founding. Six lectures delivered at Cornell university on the Messenger foundation in the year 1943, in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the opening of that institution in the year 1868: together with fifteen interesting but hitherto unpublished documents relating thereto. The whole further adduced in explanatory and commentative notes and supported by exact references to the original sources according to the practice of the most eminent historians; with all of which is included an address entitled 'The Cornell tradition, ' delivered on April 27, 1940, in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the signing of the charter by Carl L Becker( Book )

7 editions published between 1943 and 1944 in English and Undetermined and held by 261 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Six lectures delivered at Cornell university on the Messenger foundation in the year 1943, in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the opening of that institution in the year 1868: together with fifteen interesting but hitherto unpublished documents relating thereto. The whole further adduced in explanatory and commentative notes and supported by exact references to the original sources according to the practice of the most eminent historians; with all of which is included an address entitled 'The Cornell tradition, ' delivered on April 27, 1940, in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the signing of the charter

"What is the good of history?" Selected letters of Carl L. Becker, 1900 -1945 by Carl L Becker( Book )

5 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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