biography
| name: |
Becker, Carl (Lotus)
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pronunciation:
[beker]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1873–1945)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Lincoln Township, Iowa, USA. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, then taught at several colleges before becoming professor of history at Cornell (1917–41). He was a master of both elite and popular thought in 18th-c America and Europe, and his historical writing combined scholarly learning with an accessible style. Equally honoured as a teacher, his best known work was The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932), which reflected his characteristically conservative-sceptical view of modern history. Other works include The Eve of Revolution (1918), Progress and Power (1936), and How New Will the Better World Be (1943), which expressed his views of international relations in the world after World War 2. |
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