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History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776

Becker, Carl L.

Univ of Wisconsin

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The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (The Storrs Lectures Series)

History

Yale University Press

Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that these philosophers "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials." In a new foreword, Johnson Kent Wright looks at the book's continuing relevance within the context of current discussion about the Enlightenment.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

New Haven (CT): Yale University Press

Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that these philosophers “demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials.” In a new foreword, Johnson Kent Wright looks at the book’s continuing relevance within the context of current discussion about the Enlightenment. “Will remain a classic―a beautifully finished literary product.”―Charles A. Beard, American Historical Review “The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers remainsone of the most distinctive American contributions to the historical literature on the Enlightenment. . . . [It] is likely to beguile and provoke readers for a long time to come.”―Johnson Kent Wright, from the foreword

History Of Political Parties In The Province Of New York, 1760-76

Reprint Services Corp

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."

Cornell University: Founders and the Founding (Messenger Lectures)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Fall Creek Books

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.

Detachment and the Writing of History: Essays and Letters of Carl L. Becker

Americas

Cornell University Press

A discussion of post World War II reconstruction

How New Will the Better World Be? a Discussion of Post-War Reconstruction

World

Ayer Co. Pub

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.

Praeger

The Eve of the Revolution

East India Publishing Company

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History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (The Storrs Lectures Series)

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

History Of Political Parties In The Province Of New York, 1760-76

Cornell University: Founders and the Founding (Messenger Lectures)

Detachment and the Writing of History: Essays and Letters of Carl L. Becker

How New Will the Better World Be? a Discussion of Post-War Reconstruction

Detachment and the Writing of History: Essays and Letters of Carl L. Becker

The Eve of the Revolution