Lectures on Modern history

Lectures on Modern history
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- INAUGURAL LECTURE ON THE STUDY OF HISTORY
-03- NOTES TO THE INAUGURAL LECTURE ON THE STUDY OF HISTORY
-04- PART I. BEGINNING OF THE MODERN STATE
-05- PART II. THE NEW WORLD
-06- PART III. THE RENAISSANCE
-07- PART IV. LUTHER
-08- PART V. THE COUNTER REFORMATION
-09- PART VI. CALVIN AND HENRY VIII
-10- PART VII. PHILIP II MARY STUART AND ELIZABETH
-11- PART VIII. THE HUGUENOTS AND THE LEAGUE
-12- PART IX. HENRY THE FOURTH AND RICHELIEU
-13- PART X. THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
-14- PART XI. THE PURITAN REVOLUTION
-15- PART XII. THE RISE OF THE WHIGS
-16- PART XIII. THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
-17- PART XIV. LEWIS THE FOURTEENTH
-18- PART XV. THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION
-19- PART XVI. THE HANOVERIAN SETTLEMENT
-20- PART XVII. PETER THE GREAT AND THE RISE OF PRUSSIA
-21- PART XVIII. FREDERIC THE GREAT
-22- PART XIX. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
-23- APPENDIX