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Essays on freedom and power,

Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Baron
Publisher: Boston, Beacon Press [©1948]
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Baron
OCLC Number: 1052339
Description: lxv, 452 p. 23 cm.
Contents: Inaugural lecture on the study of history.- The history of freedom in antiquity.- The history of freedom in Christianity.- The Protestant theory 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).
Responsibility: selected, and with an introd. by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Pref. by Herman Finer.

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