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1. Published as Volume 1: Form and Actuality and Volume 2: Perspectives of world history. There have been several editions and translations. Oxford University Press published an abridged edition (1991) with an introduction by H. Stuart Hughes.

2. See Drucker’s The end of economic man: the origins of totalitarianism, (1939/2017), Routledge, U.K. and Arendt’s The origins of totalitarianism (1951/2017), Penguin Modern Classics, Penguin Random House, U.K.

3. Those interested in historiography in general should read Richard J. Evans’ In Defense of History (2000), Granta Publications, London.

4. See: https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/acton-acton-creighton-correspondence#lf1524_label_010.

5. See: Lord Acton Quotes.” Quoteslyfe.com, 2022. Sun. 11 Dec. 2022. https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/And-remember-where-you-have-a-concentration-303940.

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This work was supported by The Leverhulme Trust [EM-2017-020\7].