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APPENDIX - John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton, The History of Freedom and Other Essays [1907]

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The History of Freedom and Other Essays, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1907).

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APPENDIX

By the kindness of the Abbot Gasquet we are enabled to supplement the Bibliography of Acton’s writings published by the Royal Historical Society with the following additional items:—

In The Rambler, 1858
April—Burke.
July—[With Simpson] Mr. Buckle’s Thesis and Method. Short Reviews.
August—Mr. Buckle’s Philosophy of History.
October—Theiner’s Documents inédits relatifs aux affaires religieuses de France 1790–1800, pp. 265-267.
December—The Count de Montalembert, pp. 421-428 and note, 432. Carlyle’s History of Frederick the Great, vols. i. and ii. p. 429.
1859
January—Political Thoughts on the Church.
February—The Catholic Press.
September—Contemporary Events.
1860
September—National Defence.
Irish Education in Current Events.
1862
Correspondence.
The Danger of the Physical Sciences.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

8vo. 10s. net.

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

I. Wolsey and the Divorce of Henry VIII.

II. The Borgias and their Latest Historian.

III. Secret History of Charles II.

IV. The Civil War in America.

V. The Rise and Fall of the Mexican Empire.

VI. Cavour.

VII. The Causes of the Franco-Prussian War.

VIII. The War of 1870.

IX. George Eliot’s “Life.”

X. Mr. Buckle’s “Thesis and Method.”

XI. German Schools of History.

XII. Talleyrand’s Memoirs.

XIII. The “Life” of Lord Houghton.

XIV. A History of the Papacy during the Period of the Reformation.

XV. A Short History of Napoleon I. The First Napoleon: A Sketch, Political and Military.

XVI. Mabillon et la Société de l’Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés à la Fin du XVIIe Siècle.

XVII. A History of England, 1837–1880.

XVIII. A History of the French Revolution.

XIX. Wilhelm von Giesebrecht.

MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd., LONDON.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

8vo. 10s. net.

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

I. Beginning of the Modern State.

II. The New World.

III. The Renaissance.

IV. Luther.

V. The Counter-Reformation.

VI. Calvin and Henry VIII.

VII. Philip II., Mary Stuart, and Elizabeth.

VIII. The Huguenots and the League.

IX. Henry the Fourth and Richelieu.

X. The Thirty Years’ War.

XI. The Puritan Revolution.

XII. The Rise of the Whigs.

XIII. The English Revolution.

XIV. Lewis XIV.

XV. The War of the Spanish Succession.

XVI. The Hanoverian Settlement.

XVII. Peter the Great and the Rise of Prussia.

XVIII. Frederic the Great.

XIX. The American Revolution.

Appendix I.—Letter to Contributors to the Cambridge Modern History.

Appendix II.—Notes to Inaugural Lecture.

Index.

MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd., LONDON.