Lectures on modern history
by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton ; edited and introduced by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence
- London Macmillan and Co.Ltd. 1906
- xx, 362p.; 23 cm.
Includes appendix and index.
Inaugural lecture on the study of history -- Beginning of the modern state -- The new world -- 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