Detachment and the Writing of History: Essays and Letters of Carl L. Becker
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780837160238 (0837160235)
Publish date: 1972
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Carl Becker is, along with Charles Beard, the most influential “relativist” in American historiography, according to Peter Novick’s That Noble Dream. So I thought I’d read some of Becker’s essays. They seem pretty even-handed and insightful. Becker isn’t arguing for anything more radical than Hum...