Bøker av 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...

Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that they "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials".

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...