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Carl Lotus Becker | | Birth Date: |
September 7, 1873 | | Death Date: |
April 10, 1945 | | Place of Birth: |
Waterloo, Iowa, United States | | Place of Death: |
Ithaca, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
historian |
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Biography of Carl Lotus Becker
558 words, approx. 2 pages
 American historian Carl Lotus Becker (1873-1945) was a proponent of the doctrine of historical relativism. He is best known for his book "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers." Carl Becker was born on a farm near Waterloo, lowa, on...
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Biography of Carl (Lotus) Becker
4,175 words, approx. 14 pages
 Carl Becker was a historian of history as well as a historian of the United States, and his place in American history rests as much on his capacity to raise provocative questions about the nature of historical study as on the history he produced. He...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Carl L. Becker Information
429 words, approx. 1 pages
 Carl Lotus Becker (1873–1945) was an American historian. He was born in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa. He studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Frederick Jackson Turner was his doctoral advisor there. Becker got his Ph.D. in 1907. He was...


Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by George H. Sabine
11,913 words, approx. 40 pages
 In his introduction to Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life, Sabine notes that Becker consistently questioned democracy, aiming for an "idealism without illusions and a realism without cynicism. '
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Critical Essay by Charlotte Watkins Smith
9,830 words, approx. 33 pages
 In the following essay, Smith shows Becker to have been a writer whose concerns were as much literary as they were historical and philosophical.
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