The History of Freedom

The History of Freedom

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- PREFATORY NOTE

-03- CHRONICLE

-04- INTRODUCTION

-05- THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM IN ANTIQUITY

-06- THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM IN CHRISTIANITY

-07- SIR ERSKINE MAY'S DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE

-08- THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW

-09- THE PROTESTANT THEORY OF PERSECUTION

-10- POLITICAL THOUGHTS ON THE CHURCH[300]

-11- INTRODUCTION TO L A  BURD'S EDITION OF IL PRINCIPE BY MACHIAVELLI

-12- MR GOLDWIN SMITH'S IRISH HISTORY

-13- NATIONALITY

-14- DÖLLINGER ON THE TEMPORAL POWER

-15- DÖLLINGER'S HISTORICAL WORK

-16- CARDINAL WISEMAN AND THE HOME AND FOREIGN REVIEW

-17- CONFLICTS WITH ROME

-18- THE VATICAN COUNCIL

-19- A HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF THE MIDDLE AGES

-20- THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH

-21- HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHY IN FRANCE AND FRENCH BELGIUM AND SWITZERLAND

-22- APPENDIX