Lectures on Modern History
- author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton
- editor: John Neville Figgis
- editor: Reginald Vere Laurence
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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.
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Lectures on Modern History, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1906).
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