Lectures on Modern history - Couverture souple

Dalberg Acton, John Emerich Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1511710616 ISBN 13 : 9781511710619

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Lectures on Modern History (English Edition) brings together the celebrated course of historical lectures by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, offering a sweeping, intellectually rigorous interpretation of Europe’s transformation from the late medieval world into the modern age. Written with clarity, moral seriousness, and a scholar’s command of sources, Acton’s narrative explores how ideas, institutions, and power struggles shaped the political and spiritual foundations of modern civilization.

Moving across the upheavals of the Renaissance, Reformation, religious conflict, and the rise of constitutional government, Acton examines the enduring tension between authority and conscience, the state and the individual, and tradition and reform. His approach does not merely recount events; it weighs their significance and asks what the modern world inherited—both its achievements and its dangers—from centuries of contested change.

In these lectures, Acton’s distinctive voice stands out: principled, discerning, and uncompromising in the pursuit of historical truth. Readers of history, political thought, and European intellectual life will find a classic work that remains relevant for anyone interested in how liberty developed, how power justifies itself, and how the past continues to shape the present.

Whether you are discovering Acton for the first time or returning to a cornerstone of historical writing, Lectures on Modern History offers a timeless education in modern Europe’s defining struggles and ideas, presented by one of the most influential historians of the modern era, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1511710616
• ISBN 13: 9781511710619
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Éditeur: The Perfect Library
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