Acton and history

This is a collection of Owen Chadwick's principal writings on Lord Acton, the distinguished Victorian historian and founder of The Cambridge Modern History, in which an historian of our own times expounds the life and work of a great predecessor. This book explains the important aspects of Acton's complex mind and his great contribution to historical studies.

First sentence: ACTON was born in 1834, only son of a baronet and squire of Aldenham in Shropshire.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Editions

1

Pages

284

ISBN

9780521893183

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