John Emerich Edward Dalberg: 17 books

8 Works of John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton English historian (1834-1902) This ebook presents a collection of 8 Works of John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton. A dynamic table of contents allows to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - German Schools of...

Letters of Lord Acton John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, english Catholic historian, politician, and writer (1834-1902) This ebook presents «Letters of Lord Acton», from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, english Catholic historian, politician, and writer (1834-1902) This ebook presents «Lectures on Modern history», from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter...

The History of Freedom John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, english Catholic historian, politician, and writer (1834-1902) This ebook presents «The History of Freedom», from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

A Lecture on the Study of History John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, english Catholic historian, politician, and writer (1834-1902) This ebook presents «A Lecture on the Study of History», from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to...

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902)—known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton—was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand...

This collection of the lectures of Lord Acton on the French Revolution comprises a disciplined, thorough, and elegant history of the actual events of the bloody episode. It is as thorough a record as could be constructed in Acton’s time of the actions of the government of France during the Revolution. Delivered...

Formerly known as Lord Acton, John E.E. Dalberg Acton was one of the great historians of the Victorian period and one of the greatest classical historians of all time. His life's work was advancing the history of liberty though he was never able to complete his magnum opus. THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM...

Fellow Students, I look back to-day to a time before the middle of the century, when I wasUNITY OF MODERN HISTORY reading at Edinburgh, and fervently wishing to come to this University. At three colleges I applied for admission, and, as things then were, I was refused by all. Here, from the first,...

The revenue of France was near twenty millions when Lewis XVI., finding it inadequate, called upon the nation for supply. In a single lifetime it rose to far more than one hundred millions, while the national income grew still more rapidly; and this increase was wrought by a class to whom the ancient...

The Editors desire to thank the members of the Acton family for their help and advice during the preparation of this volume and of the volume of Historical Essays and Studies. They have had the advantage of access to many of Acton's letters, especially those to Dollinger and Lady Blennerhasset. They...

This volume must be regarded not as the support of an existing reputation, or as a bid for the establishment of posthumous renown, but as the record and memorial of a rare and attractive personality. The accurate, insatiable, and broad-minded student is revealed ; the generous champion of a noble...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Excerpt from Letters of Lord Acton: To Mary Gladstone It does not seem likely that any one, after reading these letters, will question the desirability of their publication. In general they speak for themselves;...

The two volumes of his lectures on modern history and on the French Revolution give us in their full ripeness the sum of Acton's historical judgments. History was not to Acton a mere academic pursuit. With that view of history which considers it, beneath the dry light of science, as a series of phenomena...