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Detachment and the writing of history : essays and letters of Carl L. Becker / edited by Phil L. Snyder.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks D13 .B38 1958
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LIBRA 907 B386
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Becker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus), 1873-1945.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages ; 23 cm
- 8vo.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [1958]
- Contents:
- 1. On history: Detachment and the writing of history
- Review of Henry Adams' The degradation of the democratic dogma
- On writing history
- What are historical facts?
- What is historiography?
- Letters on history
- 2. On education: On being a professor
- Learning and teaching
- The art of writing
- Letters on education
- 3. On democracy: Why De Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America
- Europe through the eyes of the Middle West
- The dilemma of liberals in our time
- What is still living in the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson?
- Other Format:
- Online version: Becker, Carl Lotus, 1873-1945. Detachment and the writing of history.
- ISBN:
- 0837160235
- 9780837160238
- OCLC:
- 1147491
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