Lectures on Modern History
These are the lectures given by the great English classical liberal historian, Lord Acton, in the academic years 1899-1901 at Cambridge University. It is a survey of modern history from the rise of the modern nation state to the American Revolution. The book also contains his “Inaugural Lecture” of 1895.
Lectures on Modern History, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1906).
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Table of Contents
- PREFATORY NOTE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION LORD ACTON AS PROFESSOR
- INAUGURAL LECTURE ON THE STUDY OF 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 THE FOURTEENTH
- 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
- APPENDIX II NOTES TO THE INAUGURAL LECTURE ON THE STUDY OF HISTORY
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