Essays on Freedom and Power

By John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton

Essays on Freedom and Power
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Inaugural lecture on the study of history.- The history of freedom in antiquity.- The history of freedom in Christianity.- The Protestant theoy of persecution.- Sir Erskine May's "Democracy in Europe"--Nationality.- Political causes of the American Revolution.- The background of the French Revolution.- Conflicts with Rome.- The Vatican Council.- Acton-Creighton correspondence.- Bibliography, comp. by B.F. Hoselitz (p. 374-398).

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