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Letters of Lord Acton

Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
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Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Letters of Lord Acton

Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone

Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
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Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Letters of Lord Acton

Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511710831
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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"Letters of Lord Acton" from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton. English historian (1834-1902).

Historical Essays & Studies

Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone

Author: Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465531041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Power Tends To Corrupt

Author: Christopher Lazarski
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1609090799
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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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.