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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 November 2009
      28 July 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511585234
      9780521570749
      9780521893183
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585234
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.595kg, 286 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.594kg, 288 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History after 1450, History, Religion, Church History
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    This is an edited collection of Owen Chadwick's principal writings on Lord Acton, the distinguished Victorian historian and founder of The Cambridge Modern History. Some of the pieces are no longer readily available, while one has never before appeared in English. All have been revised, sometimes extensively. Acton (1834–1902) was born in Naples, the grandson of the Neapolitan prime minister Sir John Acton. Educated at Munich University, he sat as a Liberal MP 1859–64, was created a baron in 1869, and in 1895 was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. This book explains the important aspects of Acton's complex mind and his great contribution to historical studies. Professor Chadwick, himself a former holder of Acton's Regius Chair, is the leading senior authority both on Acton and on matters of church and state in the nineteenth century.

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    ‘Chadwick’s essays come together beautifully … an admirable and enormously readable collection.’

    Edward Norman Source: Church Times

    ‘What a joy it is to read a book which is so delightfully written … I have seldom been so enchanted.’

    Source: The Expository Times

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