Name: Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Volume 1 -- Essays in the History of Liberty
Brand: Liberty Fund Inc. (US)
SKU: 9780865970465
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Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Volume 1 -- Essays in the History of Liberty

By (author): H B Acton

Published by Liberty Fund Inc. (US)

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£23.95

Format: Hardback
Pages: 558
ISBN: 9780865970465
Publication Date: 01-Jan-1998

Subjects:
Literary essays
General & world history
Political science & theory

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The unifying theme of these essays is Lord Acton's concept of liberty. Included are his two famous essays on the history of freedom (The History of Freedom in Antiquity; and The History of Freedom in Christianity) as are writings on the tradition of liberty in England, America, and Europe.

H B Acton (1908-1974) taught at Bedford College (London), the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Chicago; was editor of Philosophy, the influential journal of the British Royal Institute of Philosophy; and wrote, among other books, The Morals of Markets (1971; Liberty Fund, 1993) and The Philosophy of Language in Revolutionary France (1959).