Lectures on Modern history

Lectures on Modern history

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, english Catholic historian, politician, and writer (1834-1902)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- INAUGURAL LECTURE ON THE STUDY OF HISTORY

-03- NOTES TO THE INAUGURAL LECTURE ON THE STUDY OF HISTORY

-04- PART I. BEGINNING OF THE MODERN STATE

-05- PART II. THE NEW WORLD

-06- PART III. THE RENAISSANCE

-07- PART IV. LUTHER

-08- PART V. THE COUNTER REFORMATION

-09- PART VI. CALVIN AND HENRY VIII

-10- PART VII. PHILIP II MARY STUART AND ELIZABETH

-11- PART VIII. THE HUGUENOTS AND THE LEAGUE

-12- PART IX. HENRY THE FOURTH AND RICHELIEU

-13- PART X. THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR

-14- PART XI. THE PURITAN REVOLUTION

-15- PART XII. THE RISE OF THE WHIGS

-16- PART XIII. THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION

-17- PART XIV. LEWIS THE FOURTEENTH

-18- PART XV. THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION

-19- PART XVI. THE HANOVERIAN SETTLEMENT

-20- PART XVII. PETER THE GREAT AND THE RISE OF PRUSSIA

-21- PART XVIII. FREDERIC THE GREAT

-22- PART XIX. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

-23- APPENDIX