The History of Freedom, and Other Essays

by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

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HISTORICAL ESSAYS
AND STUDIES

By the late LORD ACTON, D.C.L., LL.D., etc.
REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Edited with an Introduction by John Neville Figgis, M.A., and Reginald Vere Laurence, M.A.

CONTENTS

• Wolsey and the Divorce of Henry VIII.
• The Borgias and their Latest Historian.
• Secret History of Charles II.
• The Civil War in America.
• The Rise and Fall of the Mexican Empire.
• Cavour.
• The Causes of the Franco-Prussian War.
• The War of 1870.
• George Eliot's "Life."
• Mr. Buckle's "Thesis and Method."
• German Schools of History.
• Talleyrand's Memoirs.
• The "Life" of Lord Houghton.
• A History of the Papacy during the Period of the Reformation.
• A Short History of Napoleon I. The First Napoleon: A Sketch, Political and Military.
• Mabillon et la Société de l'Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés à la Fin du XVII^e Siècle.
• A History of England, 1837-1880.
• A History of the French Revolution.
• Wilhelm von Giesebrecht.

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