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John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, Liberal politician, and writer. A strong advocate for individual liberty, Acton is best known for his timeless observation on the dangers of concentrated authority. In an 1887 letter to an Anglican bishop, he famously wrote, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," underscoring his belief that unchecked power poses the greatest threat to human freedom. His works consistently emphasized the importance of limiting governmental and institutional power in favor of individual rights and personal liberty. (From Wikipedia) More about John Acton:
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4 additional books about John Acton in the extended shelves:Books by John Acton: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902, contrib.: The Cambridge Modern History (13 volumes plus an atlas; 1902-1912), ed. by Adolphus William Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, also contrib. by E. A. Benians- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on Modern History (PDF at McMaster)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on the French Revolution, ed. by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (PDF at McMaster)
Additional books by John Acton in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: The Cambridge modern history (The University press , 1902), also by E. A. Benians, Stanley Leathes, G. W. Prothero, and Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: The Cambridge modern history (The Macmillan company;, 1902), also by E. A. Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, G. W. Prothero, and Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: The Cambridge modern history (Macmillan Co.;, 1911), also by E. A. Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, G. W. Prothero, and Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: The Cambridge modern history : planned by the late Lord Acton (University Press, 1907), also by E. A. Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, G. W. Prothero, and Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Die neuere deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft. Eine Skizze. (R. Gaertner, 1887), also by Johannes Imelman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Essays on church and state. (Hollis and Carter, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: French Revolution (New York: Noonday Press, 1959., 1959), also by Reginald Vere Laurence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Histoire de la liberté dans l'antiquité et le christianisme. (Sandoz et Fischbacher, 1878), also by Louis Borguet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Histoire de la liberté dans l'antiquité et le christianisme. (C. Muquardt, 1878), also by Louis Borguet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Historical essays & studies (Macmillan and co., limited, 1907), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Historical essays & studies (Macmillan, 1907), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: The history of freedom and other essays (Macmillan and co., limited, 1909), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: The history of freedom and other essays (Macmillan and co., limited, 1907), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: The history of freedom and other essays (Macmillan, 1907), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: The history of freedom, and other essays. (Macmillan and Co.,Limited, 1922), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: The History of Freedom, and Other Essays (Gutenberg ebook)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Il principe (The Clarendon press, 1891), also by Niccolò Machiavelli and Laurence Arthur Burd (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Il principe (The Clarendon Press, 1991), also by Niccolò Machiavelli and L. Arthur Burd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: La strage di San Bartolomeo : monografia storico-critica (dalla North Britis review) ([s.n.], 1870), also by Tommaso Gar (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: A Lecture on the Study of History (Gutenberg ebook)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: A lecture on the study of history delivered at Cambridge. June 11, 1895. (Macmillan, 1895), also by Frances Mary Grogan Brookfield (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: A lecture on the study of history delivered at cambridge, June 11, 1895 (Macmillan and Co., 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on modern history (Macmillan, 1906), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on modern history (Macmillan, 1921), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on modern history (Macmillan and Co., limited;, 1912), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on modern history. (Meridian Books, 1961) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on Modern history (Gutenberg ebook)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on the French revolution (Macmillan and co., limited, 1910), also by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on the French revolution (Macmillan and co., limited, 1920), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on the French Revolution (AMS Press, 1969) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on the French revolution. (Macmillan, 1925), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgias (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on the French revolution (Macmillan and Co., 1910), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on the French Revolution (Macmillan, 1910), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lectures on the French Revolution, ed. by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (Gutenberg ebook)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone (G. Allen, 1904), also by Herbert W. Paul (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone (Macmillan and co., limited, 1913), also by Herbert W. Paul (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, ed. by Herbert W. Paul (Gutenberg ebook)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, daughter of the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone (Macmillan, 1913), also by Herbert Paul (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, daughter of the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone (George Allen, 156, Charing Cross Road, 1904), also by Mary Gladstone Drew and Herbert W. Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone. (The Macmillan Co.;, 1904), also by Herbert W. Paul and Mary Gladstone Drew (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone (The Macmillan Company; [etc., etc.], 1904), also by Herbert Woodfield Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lord Acton and his circle (G. Allen, 1906), also by Francis Aidan Gasquet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lord Acton and his circle. (Longmans, Green, 1906), also by Francis Aidan Gasquet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Lord Acton and his circle (Burns and Oates, 1906), also by Francis Aidan Gasquet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Selections from the correspondence of the first Lord Acton (Longmans, Green and co., 1917), also by Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Über das studium der geschichte. Eröffnungsvorlesung gehalten zu Cambridge am II juni 1895. (R. Gaertner, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: The Vatican decrees in their bearing on civil allegiance: a political expostulation. (D. Appleton and company, 1874), also by W. E. Gladstone and Henry Edward Manning (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Zur Geschichte des vaticanischen Conciles (M. Rieger'sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung (G. Himmer), 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902: Zur Geschichte des vaticanischen Conciles (M. Rieger'sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung (G. Himmer), 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
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