Name: Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Volume 2 -- Essays in the Study & Writing of History
Brand: Liberty Fund Inc. (US)
SKU: 9780865970489
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Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Volume 2 -- Essays in the Study & Writing of History

By (author): H B Acton

Published by Liberty Fund Inc. (US)

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£23.95

Format: Hardback
Pages: 580
ISBN: 9780865970489
Publication Date: 01-Jan-1998

Subjects:
Literary essays
History: theory & methods
General & world history

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Volume 2 brings together Acton's distinguished writings on history. Included is his famous Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge: The Study of History. Writing on many diverse topics, Acton argues that history demonstrates progress and unity through the story of liberty and that the study of history should be impartial, based on archival research, and founded in moral judgement.

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).