The History of Freedom, and Other Essays

by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY

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

Introduction.
Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History.

Lectures on Modern History

• Beginning of the Modern State.
• The New World.
• The Renaissance.
• Luther.
• The Counter-Reformation.
• Calvin and Henry VIII.
• Philip II., Mary Stuart, and Elizabeth.
• The Huguenots and the League.
• Henry the Fourth and Richelieu.
• The Thirty Years' War.
• The Puritan Revolution.
• The Rise of the Whigs.
• The English Revolution.
• Lewis XIV.
• The War of the Spanish Succession.
• The Hanoverian Settlement.
• Peter the Great and the Rise of Prussia.
• Frederic the Great.
• The American Revolution.

Appendix I.—Letter to Contributors to the Cambridge Modern History. Appendix II.—Notes to Inaugural Lecture. Index.

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