Brown Robert Eldon 1907 2001 (1 results)

PAPERBACK, very good. BROWN, ROBERT ELDON. Carl Becker on history and the American Revolution. East Lansing, Michigan: The Spartan Press, 1970, vi, 285pp., . For the past fifteen years or more there has been a sharp controversy among historians of the American Revolutionary Era over how this period of American history should be interpreted. In great part, the controversy revolves around an interpretation made popular by the noted Cornell University historian, Carl Becker. This book attempts to explain how Becker's training and philosophy of history resulted in his particular interpretation of the Revolution, and why, in his later years, he changed both his philosophy of history and his interpretation. Other books by the author: Middle-Class Democracy and the Revolution - in Massachusetts, 1691-1780 - Charles Beard and the Constitution. - Reinterpretation of the Formation of the American Constitution. - Virginia, 1705-1786: Democracy or Aristocracy, with B. Katherine Brown.