Acton and history
By: Owen Chadwick.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902.; Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Description: This is a collection of Owen Chadwick's principal writings on Lord Acton, the distinguished Victorian historian and founder of The Cambridge Modern History, in which an historian of our own times expounds the life and work of a great predecessor. This book explains the important aspects of Acton's complex mind and his great contribution to historical studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.