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Author : David Mathew
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lord Acton and His Times written by David Mathew and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Mathew
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ISBN 13 : 9780817357009
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lord Acton and His Times written by David Mathew and published by . This book was released on 1968-12 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roland Hill
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ISBN 13 : 9780300181272
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lord Acton written by Roland Hill and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."--Lord Acton, 1887 Lord Acton (1834-1902), numbered among the most esteemed Victorian historical thinkers, was much respected for his vast learning, his ideas on politics and religion, and his lifelong preoccupation with human freedom. Yet Acton was in many ways an outsider. He stood apart from his contemporaries, doubting the notion of unlimited progress and the blessings of nationalism and democracy. He differed from fellow members of the English upper class, holding to his Catholic faith. And he angered other Catholic believers by fiercely opposing the doctrine of papal infallibility. In this remarkable biography, Roland Hill is the first to make full use of the vast collection of books, documents, and private papers in the Acton archives to tell the story of the enigmatic Lord Acton. The book describes Acton's extended family of European aristocrats, his cosmopolitan upbringing, and his disrupted education. Drawing a lively picture of politics and religion at the time, Hill discusses Acton's brief career as a Liberal member of Parliament, his work as editor and owner of learned Catholic journals, his battles for freedom for and in the Catholic Church, his friendship with William E. Gladstone, and his seven years as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. Though unable to complete The Cambridge Modern History series he envisaged, Acton transformed historical study and left a legacy of ideas that continues to influence historians today.
Author : Christopher Lazarski
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501757423
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Power Tends To Corrupt written by Christopher Lazarski and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Acton (1834–1902) is often called a historian of liberty. A great historian and political thinker, he had a rare talent to reach beneath the surface and reveal the hidden springs that move the world. While endeavoring to understand the components of a truly free society, Acton attempted to see how the principles of self-determination and freedom worked in practice, from antiquity to his own time. But though he penned hundreds of papers, essays, reviews, letters and ephemera, the ultimate book of his findings and views on the history of liberty remained unwritten. Reading a book a day for years he still could not keep pace with the output of his time, and finally, dejected, he gave up. Today, Acton is mainly known for a single maxim, power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In Power Tends to Corrupt, Christopher Lazarski presents the first in-depth consideration of Acton's thought in more than fifty years. Lazarski brings Acton's work to light in accessible language, with a focus on his understanding of liberty and its development in Western history. A work akin to Acton's overall account of the history of liberty, with a secondary look at his political theory, this book is an outstanding exegesis of the theories and findings of one of the nineteenth century's keenest minds.
Author : Acton
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ISBN 13 : 9781942503521
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lord Acton written by Acton and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberty is contested because it is complex. It is not merely a concern of political science or economy, an abstract philosophical concept, or a theological doctrine. It is all those things and many things besides; it is, as Lord Acton said, ¿the delicate fruit of a mature civilization.¿ To understand this complex and contested idea, the best place to begin is with Acton himself, the foremost historian of liberty. This collection of Acton¿s most important historical and moral essays introduces contemporary readers to his account of the emergence and impact of the idea of liberty.
Author : Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lord Acton written by Gertrude Himmelfarb and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lectures on Modern History written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays on Freedom and Power written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book Lord Acton and His Circle written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
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Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Freedom written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
