Declaration of Independence
A Study in the History of Political Ideas
Published on 8. May 2013
316 pages
978-0-307-82372-4 (ISBN)
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The Declaration of Independence
Carl L. Becker's important study is an analysis of the concepts expressed in the Declaration. Here is a lucid explanation of what the Declaration really is, what views it sets forth, where those views arose, and how they have been accepted or modified by succeeding generations. A book that every American should read.
Carl L. Becker's important study is an analysis of the concepts expressed in the Declaration. Here is a lucid explanation of what the Declaration really is, what views it sets forth, where those views arose, and how they have been accepted or modified by succeeding generations. A book that every American should read.
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Carl L. Becker, born in Lincoln Township, Iowa, in 1873, was Professor of History at Cornell University from 1917 to 1941. Educated at Cornell College, Iowa, at the University of Wisconsin, and at Columbia, he taught at Pennsylvania State, Dartmouth, and the universities of Kansas and Minnesota before going to Cornell. He died in Ithaca, New York, in 1945. His books include Progress and Power (1936), How New Will the Better World Be? (1944), and Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life (1945).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- Acknowledgment
- Contents
- I. The Declaration of Independence
- II. Historical Antecedents of the Declaration: The Natural Rights Philosophy
- III. Historical Antecedents of the Declaration: Theory of the British Empire
- IV. Drafting the Declaration
- V. The Literary Qualities of the Declaration
- VI. The Philosophy of the Declaration in the Nineteenth Century
- About the Author
