Author:John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
(1834–1902)

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Works

• Historical Essays and Studies
  • The Borgias and their Latest Historian
  • The Civil War in America
  • The Causes of the Franco-Prussian War
  • German Schools of History
• The History of Freedom and Other Essays (transcription project)
  • The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
  • The History of Freedom in Christianity (1877)
  • Mr. Goldwin Smith's Irish History (1862)
• Lectures on Modern History
  • Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History (1895)
  • The American Revolution (c. 1900)
• Lectures on the French revolution (external scan)
• Lord Acton and his circle (transcription project) (external scan)
• Selections from the correspondence of the first Lord Acton (external scan)
• Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, daughter of the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone (external scan)
• A Lecture on the Study of History (1911)
• The Cambridge Modern History (planner and first editor) (1912)

Works about Acton

• "Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Baron Acton," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton), 1st Baron," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Lord," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
• Lord Acton and his circle (1906) edited by Abbot Gasquet (external scan)
• "Lord Acton at Cambridge," Independent Review April 1904 by John Pollock
• "Review of Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone.", Athenæum April 16th, 1904
• "Acton (Lord), John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)