Lectures on modern history /

Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902.

Lectures on modern history / Lord Acton ; with an introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper. - London : Collins, 1960. - 319 p. ; 18 cm. - Fontana library ; no. 406. .

Originally published: Macmillan, 1906.

Beginning of the modern state -- The New World -- The Renaissance -- Luther -- The Counter-Reformation -- Calvin and Henry VIII -- Philip II, Mary Stuart, and Elizabeth -- The Huguenots and the League -- Henry the Fourth and Richelieu -- The Thirty Years' War -- The Puritan Revolution -- The rise of the Whigs -- The English Revolution -- Lewis XIV -- The War of the Spanish Succession -- The Hanoverian settlement -- Peter the Great and the rise of Prussia -- Frederic the Great -- The American Revolution.

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