The Cambridge Modern History
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The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery, published by the Cambridge University Press in England and also in the Un
Italy in 1799, from the Atlas (1912)
Cambridge Modern History Atlas (1912), title page
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli,, better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, Liberal politician, and writer. A strong advocate for ind
The Cambridge Modern History
…the 15th century Age of Discovery, published by the Cambridge University Press in England and also in the United States. The first series, planned by Lord Acton and edited by him with Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Sir Adolphus William Ward and G. W. Prothero, was launched in 1902 and totalled fourteen volumes, the…
Picture of John Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton
Portrait of John Acton by Franz Seraph von Lenbach, c. 1879.
Lord Acton, with Döllinger and William Gladstone, 1879.
Franz von Lenbach: Portrait of Lady Acton, 1889