John Lothrop Motley
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John Lothrop Motley (April 15, 1814 – May 29, 1877) was an American author, best known for his two popular histories The Rise of the Dutch Republic and The United Netherlands. He was also a diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War.
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Selected works
- Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial, 1839
- Life and Character of Peter the Great (North American Review), 1845
- On Balzac's Novels (North American Review), 1847
- Merry Mount, a Romance of the Massachusetts Colony, 1849
- Polity of the Puritans (North American Review), 1849
- The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 3 vol., 1856
- Florentine Mosaics (Atlantic Monthly), 1857
- History of the United Netherlands, 4 vol., 1860–67
- Causes of the Civil War in America (from The Times), 1861
- Historic Progress and American Democracy, 1868
- Review of S. E. Henshaw's History of the Work of the North-West Sanitary Commission (Atlantic Monthly), 1868
- Democracy, the Climax of Political Progress and the Destiny of Advanced Races: an Historical Essay, 1869. (Pamphlet reprint of "Historic Progress and American Democracy," listed atove.)
- The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, 2 vol., 1874
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