Historical essays & studies
By: by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton ... ; ed. by John Neville Figgis ... and Reginald Vere Laurence.
Contributors: Figgis, John Neville, 1866-1919.; Laurence, Reginald Vere, 1876-1934.
Publisher: Macmillan and co., limited
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: I. Wolsey and the divorce of Henry VIII.; title: II. The Borgias and their latest historian.; title: III. Secret history of Charles II.; title: IV. The civil war in America, its place in history.; title: V. The rise and fall of the Mexican empire.; title: VI. Cavour.; title: VII. The causes of the Franco-Prussian war.; title: VIII. The war of 1870.; title: IX. George Eliot's life.; title: X. Mr. Buckle's thesis and method.; title: XI. Mr. Buckle's philosophy of history.; title: XII. German schools of history.; title: XIII. Talleyrand's Memoirs.; title: XIV. The life of Lord Houghton.; title: XV. A history of the papacy during the period of the Reformation.; title: XVI. A short history of Napoleon the First. By John Robert Seeley. The first Napoleon: a sketch, political and military. By John Codman Ropes.; title: XVII. Mabillon et la sociéte de l'abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés à la fin du XVIIe siécle. Par Emmanuel de Broglie.; title: XVIII. A history of England, 1837-1880. By the Rev. J. Franck Bright.; title: XIX. A history of the French Revolution. By H. Morse Stephens.; title: XX. Wilhelm von Giesebrecht.; title: Appendix.; title: Index.