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Lord Action and Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

S. Paul Kramer
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Lord Acton's detachment, keen historical sense and vast knowledge reveal an insight applicable to recent Latin-American events. As Acton warned, “History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own”.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton was born in Naples in 1834. His paternal grandfather had made his career in the service of the King of Naples whose Prime Minister he was during the period of the French Revolution and Napoleon. His maternal grandfather was a noble of the Holy Roman Empire who served Napoleon and sat as a peer of France and a colleague of Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna. His maternal great-uncle had been Archbishop Elector of Mainz, and his wife's family, the Arco Valleys, were active in French politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. Acton's step-father was Lord Granville, several times British Foreign Secretary.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Inter-American Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1963 , pp. 39 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1963

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1 Kohn, Hans, introduction, Renaissance to Revolution by Acton, Lord, Schocken Books, New York, 1961, p. xi.Google Scholar

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6 Lectures on Modern History by Lord Acton, Macmillan, London, 1907, p. 67.

7 Ibid., p. 68.

8 Ibid., p. 68.

9 Historical Essays and Studies by Lord Acton, Macmillan, London, 1907, p. 144.

10 Ibid., p. 145.

11 Ibid., p. 161.

12 Essays on Church and State by Lord Acton, Hollis & Carter, London, 1952, pp. 336-337.

13 Fasnacht, op. cit., p. 217.

14 Essays on Freedom and Power, p. 225.

15 Fasnacht, op. cit., p. 217.

16 History of Freedom and Other Essays by Lord Acton, Macmillan, London, 1907, p. 57.

17 Ibid., p. 88.

18 Ibid., p. 88.

19 Ibid., pp. 91-92.

20 Fasnacht, op. cit., p. 122.

21 Ibid., p. 125.

22 Ibid., p. 122.