Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Volume 2 -- Essays in the Study & Writing of History (Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Vol 2) - Hardcover

Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg

 
9780865970489: Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Volume 2 -- Essays in the Study & Writing of History (Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Vol 2)

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History compels us to fasten on abiding issues and rescues us from the temporary and transient.

Volume II 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 judgment.

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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).

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