Lectures on Modern History by Lord Acton ~ Book on CD 

LORD ACTON'S LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY
BOOK ON CD-ROM

LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY
Author: Lord Acton.  Published in 1906.  384 pages.  Adobe PDF.  professionally labeled CD created from public domain works.

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.

Table of Contents:

Prefatory Note
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

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