Lectures on Modern History by Lord Acton
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Chapters
- Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History10,398 words
- I. Beginning of the Modern State7,105 words
- II. The New World6,804 words
- III. The Renaissance6,444 words
- IV. Luther2,168 words
- V. The Counter-Reformation6,089 words
- VI. Calvin and Henry VIII6,127 words
- VII. Philip II, Mary Stuart, and Elizabeth4,351 words
- VIII. The Huguenots and the League4,028 words
- IX. Henry the Fourth and Richelieu4,292 words
- X .The Thirty Years' War4,168 words
- XI. The Puritan Revolution3,808 words
- XII. The Rise of the Whigs4,434 words
- XIII. The English Revolution4,751 words
- XIV. Lewis the Fourteenth5,511 words
- XV. The War of the Spanish Succession5,273 words
- XVI. The Hanoverian Settlement4,619 words
- XVII. Peter the Great And the Rise of Prussia3,228 words
- XVIII. Frederic the Great5,472 words
- XIX. The American Revolution3,439 words
- Appendix I1,029 words
- Appendix II16,851 words
- Index9,856 words
- About this edition64 words
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