The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history

Modern history

Modern history, or the modern era, describes the historical timeline after the Middle Ages. Modern history can be further broken down into the early modern period and the late modern period after the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution...

 of the world

World

World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....

, beginning with the 15th century age of Discovery

Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration and the Great Navigations , was a period in history starting in the early 15th century and continuing into the early 17th century during which Europeans engaged in intensive exploration of the world, establishing direct contacts with...

, published by the Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

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 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and also in the United States

United States

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.

The first series, planned by Lord Acton

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL , known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer...

 and edited by him with Stanley Leathes

Stanley Leathes

Stanley Leathes was an English theologian and Orientalist.He was born at Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1852, M.A. 1853. In 1853 he was the first Tyrwhitts Hebrew scholar...

, Sir Adolphus William Ward

Adolphus William Ward

Sir Adolphus William Ward was an English historian and man of letters.He was born at Hampstead, London, and was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge....

 and G. W. Prothero, was launched in 1902 and totalled fourteen volumes, the last of them being an historical atlas

Historical atlas

A historical atlas is an atlas that includes historical maps and charts depicting the evolving geopolitical landscape. They are helpful in understanding historical context, the scope and scale of historical events and historical subjects , and macro-history...

 which appeared in 1912. The period covered was from 1450 to 1910.

A second series, The New Cambridge Modern History, now covering the years 1450 to 1945, appeared in fourteen volumes between 1957 and 1979, again concluding with an atlas.

The Cambridge Modern History, 1902–1912

The original Cambridge Modern History was planned by Lord Acton

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL , known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer...

, who during 1899 and 1900 gave much of his time to coordinating the project, intended to be a monument of objective, detailed, and collaborative scholarship. Acton was Regius professor of modern history

Regius Professor of Modern History (Cambridge)

Regius Professor of Modern History is one of the senior professorships in history at Cambridge University. It was founded in 1724 by George I. The appointment is by Royal Warrant on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of the day...

 at Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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, and a fellow

Fellow

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 of All Souls

All Souls College, Oxford

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, Oxford

University of Oxford

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. He had previously established the English Historical Review in 1886 and had an exalted reputation.

The new work was published in fourteen volumes between 1902 and 1912, in the British Isles

British Isles

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 by the Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...

 and in the USA by Macmillan & Co. of New York

New York

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. Written mostly by English

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 scholars, the first twelve volumes dealt with the history of the world from 1450 up to 1910. The final volume, numbered 12, was The Latest Age and appeared in 1910. There then followed two supplemental volumes.

The history was later followed by similar multi-volume works for the earlier ages, namely the Cambridge Ancient History

Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge Ancient History is a comprehensive ancient history in fourteen volumes, spanning Prehistory to Late Antiquity, published by Cambridge University Press. The first series, of twelve volumes, was planned by J. B. Bury and published between 1924 and 1939. A second series, revising and...

and the Cambridge Medieval History. As the first of such histories, it later came to be seen as establishing a tradition of collaborative scholarship.

A second edition of the atlas (volume XIV) was published in 1924.

I. The Renaissance (1902)

• Mandell Creighton
  Mandell Creighton
  Mandell Creighton , was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, a professorship that was established around the time that the study...
  
  , 'Introductory Note'
• E. J. Payne, chapter 1, 'The Age of Discovery'; chapter 2, 'The New World'
• J. B. Bury
  J. B. Bury
  John Bagnell Bury , known as J. B. Bury, was an Irish historian, classical scholar, Byzantinist and philologist.-Biography:...
  
  , chapter 3, 'The Ottoman Conquest'
• Stanley Leathes
  Stanley Leathes
  Stanley Leathes was an English theologian and Orientalist.He was born at Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1852, M.A. 1853. In 1853 he was the first Tyrwhitts Hebrew scholar...
  
  , chapter 4, 'Italy and her Invaders'
• Edward Armstrong, chapter 5, 'Florence (I): Savonarola'
• L. Arthur Burd, chapter 6, 'Florence (II): Macchiavelli'
• Richard Garnett
  Richard Garnett
  Richard Garnett C.B. was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum....
  
  , chapter 7, 'Rome and the Temporal Power'
• Horatio Brown
  Horatio Brown
  Horatio Robert Forbes Brown was a Scottish historian who specialized in the history of Venice and Italy.Born in Nice, he grew up in Midlothian, Scotland, was educated in England at Clifton and Oxford, and spent most of his life in Venice, publishing several books about the city...
  
  , chapter 8, 'Venice'
• Thomas Frederick Tout
  Thomas Frederick Tout
  Thomas Frederick Tout, F.B.A. was a 19th- and 20th-century British historian of the medieval period.-Early life:...
  
  , chapter 9, 'Germany and the Empire'
• Emil Reich, chapter 10, 'Hungary and the Slavonic Kingdoms'
• H. Butler Clarke, chapter 11, 'The Catholic Kings'
• Stanley Leathes
  Stanley Leathes
  Stanley Leathes was an English theologian and Orientalist.He was born at Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1852, M.A. 1853. In 1853 he was the first Tyrwhitts Hebrew scholar...
  
  , chapter 12, 'France'
• Adolphus William Ward
  Adolphus William Ward
  Sir Adolphus William Ward was an English historian and man of letters.He was born at Hampstead, London, and was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge....
  
  , chapter 13, 'The Netherlands'
• James Gairdner
  James Gairdner
  James Gairdner was a British historian. Specializing in 15th century and Early Tudor history, he among other tasks edited the Letters and Papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII series....
  
  , chapter 14, 'The Early Tudors'
• William Cunningham, chapter 15, 'Economic Change'
• Richard Claverhouse Jebb
  Richard Claverhouse Jebb
  Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, OM, FBA was a British classical scholar and politician.He was born in Dundee, Scotland. His father was a well-known barrister, and his grandfather a judge...
  
  , chapter 16, 'Classical Renaissance'
• M. R. James
  M. R. James
  Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, , who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College . He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre...
  
  , chapter 17, 'The Christian Renaissance'
• William Barry, DD
  William Francis Barry
  Rev. Dr. William Francis Barry was a British Catholic priest, theologian, educator and writer. He served as vice president and professor of philosophy at Birmingham Theological College from 1873 to 1877 and then professor of divinity at Oscott College from 1877 to 1880...
  
  , chapter 18, 'Catholic Europe'
• Henry Charles Lea
  Henry Charles Lea
  Henry Charles Lea was an American historian, civic reformer, and political activist. Lea was born and lived in Philadelphia.-Parents:...
  
  , chapter 19, 'The Eve of the Reformation'

II. The Reformation: The end of the Middle Ages (1903)

• Franz Xaver Kraus
  Franz Xaver Kraus
  Franz Xaver Kraus was a German Catholic priest, and ecclesiastical and art historian.-Early life:Franz Xaver Kraus was born in Trier in 1840...
  
  , chapter 1, 'Medicean Rome', pp. 1-35
• Stanley Leathes
  Stanley Leathes
  Stanley Leathes was an English theologian and Orientalist.He was born at Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1852, M.A. 1853. In 1853 he was the first Tyrwhitts Hebrew scholar...
  
  , chapter 2, 'Habsburg and Valois (I)'; chapter 3, 'Habsburg and Valois (II)'
• A. F. Pollard
  Albert Pollard
  Albert Frederick Pollard was a British historian who specialized in the Tudor period.-Life and career:Pollard was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Felsted School and Jesus College, Oxford where he achieved a first class honours in Modern History in 1891...
  
  , chapter 5, 'National Opposition to Rome in Germany'; chapter 6, 'Social Revolution and Catholic Reaction in Germany'; chapter 7, 'The Conflict of Creeds and Parties in Germany'; chapter 8, 'Religious War in Germany'; chapter 14, 'The Reformation under Edward VI'
• A. A. Tilley, chapter 9, 'The Reformation in France'
• James Pounder Whitney
  James Pounder Whitney
  James Pounder Whitney was a British ecclesiastical historian.Educated at King James's Grammar School, Almondbury and Owens College, Manchester, he was a foundation scholar at King's College, Cambridge, gaining firsts in the mathematics and history triposes in 1881...
  
  , chapter 10, 'The Helvetic Reformation'
• Andrew Martin Fairbairn
  Andrew Martin Fairbairn
  Dr Andrew Martin Fairbairn was a Scottish theological scholar, born near Edinburgh.-Education:Fairbairn was educated at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Berlin, and at the Evangelical Union Theological Academy in Glasgow...
  
  , chapter 11, 'Calvin and the Reformed Church'; chapter 19, 'Tendencies of European Thought in the Age of the Reformation'
• W. E. Collins, chapter 12, 'The Catholic South'; chapter 17, 'The Scandinavian North'
• James Gairdner
  James Gairdner
  James Gairdner was a British historian. Specializing in 15th century and Early Tudor history, he among other tasks edited the Letters and Papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII series....
  
  , chapter 13, 'Henry VIII'
• James Bass Mullinger
  James Bass Mullinger
  Dr. James Bass Mullinger , sometimes known by his pen name Theodorus, was a British author, historian, lecturer and scholar. A longtime university librarian and lecturer at St. John's College, Cambridge, Mullinger was the author of several books detailing the college's history and similar academic...
  
  , chapter 15, 'Philip and Mary'#
• Frederic William Maitland
  Frederic William Maitland
  Frederic William Maitland was an English jurist and historian, generally regarded as the modern father of English legal history.-Biography:...
  
  , chapter 16, 'The Anglican Settlement and the Scottish Reformation'
• R. V. Laurence, chapter 18, 'The Church and Reform'

III. The Wars of Religion (1904)

• A. J. Butler, chapter 1, 'The Wars of Religion in France'
• A. A. Tilley, chapter 2, 'French Humanism and Montaigne'
• R. Nisbet Bain, chapter 3, 'The Catholic Reaction, and the Valois and Baethory elections, in Poland'
• Moritz Brosch
  Moritz Brosch
  Moritz Brosch was a Bohemian German historian and professional English scholar. He was born on 7 April 1829 in Prague, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire which is now in the modern-day Czech republic. He was educated in Prague and Vienna, and became a journalist...
  
  , chapter 4, 'The height of the Ottoman power'
• Adolphus William Ward
  Adolphus William Ward
  Sir Adolphus William Ward was an English historian and man of letters.He was born at Hampstead, London, and was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge....
  
  , chapter 5, 'The Empire under Ferdinand I and Maximilian II'
• George Edmundson
  George Edmundson
  George Edmundson was a clergyman of the Church of England and academic historian of the University of Oxford. He took up benefices in Northolt and Chelsea and in retirement lived in the south of France.-Early life:...
  
  , chapter 6, 'The Revolt of the Netherlands'; chapter 7, 'William the Silent'; chapter 19, 'The Dutch Republic'
• Thomas Graves Law
  Thomas Graves Law
  Thomas Graves Law was an English Oratorian priest, and later in life a historian and bibliographer.-Life:He was a grandson of Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough...
  
  , chapter 8, 'Mary Stewart'
• John Knox Laughton
  John Knox Laughton
  Sir John Knox Laughton Kt was a British naval historian and arguably the first to argue for the importance of the subject as an independent field of study...
  
  , chapter 9, 'The Elizabethan Naval War with Spain'
• Sidney Lee
  Sidney Lee
  Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer and critic.He was born Solomon Lazarus Lee at 12 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London and educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in modern history in 1882. In the next year he became assistant-editor of the...
  
  , chapter 10, 'The Last Years of Elizabeth'; chapter 11, 'The Elizabethan Age of English Literature'
• Edward Armstrong, chapter 12, 'Tuscany and Savoy'
• Ugo Balzani
  Ugo Balzani
  Count Ugo Balzani was an Italian historian, born in Rome and educated there in the universities of that city. He became known as a distinguished scholar in his chosen field and honors were heaped upon him at home and abroad...
  
  , chapter 13, 'Rome under Sixtus V', pp. 422-455
• A. J. Butler, chapter 14, 'The End of the Italian Renaissance'
• Martin Hume, chapter 15, 'Spain under Philip II'; chapter 16, 'Spain under Philip III'
• Samuel Rawson Gardiner
  Samuel Rawson Gardiner
  Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an English historian.The son of Rawson Boddam Gardiner, he was born near Alresford, Hampshire. He was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained a first class in literae humaniores. He was subsequently elected to fellowships at All Souls ...
  
  , chapter 17, Britain under James I'
• Robert Dunlop, chapter 18, 'Ireland to the Settlement of Ulster'
• Stanley Leathes
  Stanley Leathes
  Stanley Leathes was an English theologian and Orientalist.He was born at Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1852, M.A. 1853. In 1853 he was the first Tyrwhitts Hebrew scholar...
  
  , chapter 20, 'Henry IV of France'
• Adolphus William Ward
  Adolphus William Ward
  Sir Adolphus William Ward was an English historian and man of letters.He was born at Hampstead, London, and was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge....
  
  , chapter 21, 'The Empire under Rudolf II'
• J. Neville Figgis, chapter 22, 'Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century'

IV. The Thirty Years War (1906)

• Adolphus William Ward
  Adolphus William Ward
  Sir Adolphus William Ward was an English historian and man of letters.He was born at Hampstead, London, and was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge....
  
  , chapter 1, 'The Outbreak of the Thirty Years' War'; chapter 3, 'The Protestant Collapse'; chapter 6, 'Gustavus Adolphus (1630–2)'; chapter 7, 'Wallenstein and Bernard of Weimar (1632–5)'
• Horatio Brown
  Horatio Brown
  Horatio Robert Forbes Brown was a Scottish historian who specialized in the history of Venice and Italy.Born in Nice, he grew up in Midlothian, Scotland, was educated in England at Clifton and Oxford, and spent most of his life in Venice, publishing several books about the city...
  
  , chapter 2, 'The Valtelline (1603–39)'
• Stanley Leathes
  Stanley Leathes
  Stanley Leathes was an English theologian and Orientalist.He was born at Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1852, M.A. 1853. In 1853 he was the first Tyrwhitts Hebrew scholar...
  
  , chapter 4, 'Richelieu'
• W. F. Reddaway, chapter 5, 'The Vasa in Sweden and Poland (1560–1630)'
• George Walter Prothero
  George Walter Prothero
  Sir George Walter Prothero, KBE was an English writer and historian, and President of the Royal Historical Society....
  
  , chapter 8, 'The Constitutional Struggle in England (1625–40)'; chapter 9, 'The First Two Years of the Long Parliament (1640–2)'
• George Walter Prothero and Colonel E. M. Lloyd, chapter 10, 'The First Civil War, 1642–7'; chapter 11, 'Presbyterians and Independents (1645–9)'
• W. A. Shaw, chapter 12, 'The Westminster Assembly'
• Charles Harding Firth
  Charles Harding Firth
  Sir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian.Born in Sheffield, he was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford...
  
  , chapter 19, 'Anarchy and the Restoration (1659–60)'

V. The Age of Louis XIV (1908)

• A. J. Grant
  Arthur James Grant
  Arthur James Grant was an English historian.Arthur James Grant was the son of Samuel Grant. He was educated at Boston Grammar School and King's College, Cambridge where he graduated BA in Classics in 1884. He became a University Extension lecturer. From 1897 to 1927 he was Professor of History at...
  
  , chapter 1, 'The Government of Louis XIV (1661–1715)'
• Arthur Hassall, chapter 2, 'The Foreign Policy of Louis XIV (1661–1697)'
• Emile Faguet
  Émile Faguet
  Auguste Émile Faguet was a French author and literary critic.Faguet was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, and educated at the École normale supérieure in Paris. After teaching for some time in La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he returned to Paris to act as assistant professor of poetry in the university. He...
  
  , chapter 3, 'French Seventeenth Century Literature and its European Influence'
• Viscount St Cyres
  Earl of Iddesleigh
  Earl of Iddesleigh, in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1885 for the Conservative politician Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Baronet...
  
  , chapter 4, 'The Gallican Church'
• C. H. Firth
  Charles Harding Firth
  Sir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian.Born in Sheffield, he was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford...
  
  , chapter 5, 'The Stewart Restoration'
• Harold H. Child, chapter 6, 'The Literature of the English Restoration, including Milton'
• George Edmundson
  George Edmundson
  George Edmundson was a clergyman of the Church of England and academic historian of the University of Oxford. He took up benefices in Northolt and Chelsea and in retirement lived in the south of France.-Early life:...
  
  , chapter 7, 'The Administrations of John de Witt and William of Orange' (1651–88)'
• J. R. Tanner, chapter 8, 'The Anglo-Dutch Wars'
• John Pollock, chapter 9, 'The Policy of Charles II and James II (1667–87)
• H. W. V. Temperley
  Harold Temperley
  Harold William Vazeille Temperley was a British historian, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1931, and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.- Overview :...
  
  , chapter 10, 'The Revolution and the Revolution Settlement in Great Britain'
• Henry Melvill Gwatkin
  Henry Melvill Gwatkin
  Reverend Henry Melvill Gwatkin was an English theologian and church historian.He was born at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge...
  
  , chapter 11, 'Religious Toleration in England'
• Richard Lodge
  Richard Lodge
  Sir Richard Lodge was a British historian.He was born at Penkhull, Staffordshire, the fourth of eight sons and a daughter of Oliver Lodge – later a china clay merchant at Wolstanton, Staffordshire - and his wife, Grace...
  
  , chapter 12, 'Austria, Poland, and Turkey'
• Wolfgang Michael, chapter 13, 'The Treaties of Partition and the Spanish Succession'
• C. T. Atkinson, chapter 14 (1), 'The War of the Spanish Succession: Campaigns and Negotiations'
• A. W. Ward, chapter 14 (2), 'The War of the Spanish Succession: the Peace of Utrecht and the Supplementary Pacifications'
• H. W. V. Temperley
  Harold Temperley
  Harold William Vazeille Temperley was a British historian, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1931, and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.- Overview :...
  
  , chapter 15, 'Party Government under Queen Anne'
• J. B. Bury
  J. B. Bury
  John Bagnell Bury , known as J. B. Bury, was an Irish historian, classical scholar, Byzantinist and philologist.-Biography:...
  
  , chapter 16, 'Russia (1462–1682)'
• R. Nisbet Bain, chapter 17, 'Peter the Great and His Pupils (1689–1730)'
• W. F. Reddaway, chapter 18, 'The Scandinavian Kingdoms'

VI. The Eighteenth Century (1909)

• A. W. Ward, chapter 1 (1), 'Great Britain under George I: The Hanoverian Succession
• J. F. Chance, chapter 1 (2), 'Great Britain under George I: The Foreign Policy of George I (1714-21)'
• R. Nisbet Bain, chapter 7, 'Poland under the Saxon Kings'
• C. T. Atkinson, chapter 8 (1), 'The War of the Austrian Succession: The Pragmatic Sanction'
• Emil Daniels, chapter 8 (2), 'Prussia under Frederick William I'
• C. T. Atkinson, chapter 8 (3), 'The War'

VII. The United States (1903)

• John Andrew Doyle
  John Andrew Doyle
  John Andrew Doyle, DL was an English historian, the son of Andrew Doyle, editor of The Morning Chronicle.He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, winning the Arnold prize in 1868 for his essay, The American Colonies...
  
  , chapters 1, 2, 5 and 7
• Mary Bateson
  Mary Bateson (historian)
  Mary Bateson was a British historian and suffrage activist.Bateson was the daughter of William Henry Bateson, Master of St John's College, Cambridge, and Anna Aikin. The geneticist William Bateson was her older brother. She was educated at the Perse School for Girls and Newnham College, Cambridge...
  
  , chapter 3, 'The French in America (1608—1744)'

IX. Napoleon (1906)

• Charles Oman
  Charles Oman
  Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman was a British military historian of the early 20th century. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted accounts left by chroniclers were pioneering...
  
  , 'The Peninsular War, 1808-14' & 'The Hundred Days, 1815'

XI. The Growth of Nationalities (1909)

• James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
  James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
  James Fitzmaurice-Kelly FBA was an English writer on Spanish literature.He was born in Glasgow to Colonel Thomas Kelly of the 40th Regiment of Foot and educated at St Charles's College, Kensington, where he learned Spanish from a fellow pupil and taught himself to read Don Quixote...
  
  , 'The Course of Revolution in Spain and Portugal, 1845-71'

The New Cambridge Modern History, 1957–1979

A new version of the history appeared in fourteen volumes between the 1950s and the 1970s. It introduced a wide range of new scholarship and with The Shifting Balance of World Forces 1898–1945 it brought the period covered up to the end of the Second World War

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. Its preface

Preface

A preface is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword and precedes an author's preface...

 is by Sir George Norman Clark.

The New Cambridge Modern History has been described as "a comprehensive examination of the political

Political history

Political history is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, and leaders. It is distinct from, but related to, other fields of history such as Diplomatic history, social history, economic history, and military history, as well as constitutional history and public...

, economic

Economic history

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, social

Social history

Social history, often called the new social history, is a branch of History that includes history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in history departments...

, and cultural

Cultural history

The term cultural history refers both to an academic discipline and to its subject matter.Cultural history, as a discipline, at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural...

 development

International development

International development or global development is a concept that lacks a universally accepted definition, but it is most used in a holistic and multi-disciplinary context of human development — the development of greater quality of life for humans...

 of the world from 1493 to 1945".

As with the first series, the final volume is an atlas

Historical atlas

A historical atlas is an atlas that includes historical maps and charts depicting the evolving geopolitical landscape. They are helpful in understanding historical context, the scope and scale of historical events and historical subjects , and macro-history...

. Some volumes have appeared in revised editions.

I. The Renaissance, 1493-1520 (1957)

George Richard Potter & Denys Hay

Denys Hay

Denys Hay was a historian specializing in medieval and Renaissance Europe, and notable for demonstrating the influence of Italy on events in the rest of the continent....

, eds.

• Hans Baron
  Hans Baron
  Hans Baron was a German American historian of political thought and literature in the Italian Renaissance. His main contribution to the historiography of the period was to introduce in 1928 the term civic humanism .- Life and career :Born in Berlin of a Jewish family, Baron...
  
  , chapter 3, 'Fifteenth-century civilisation and the Renaissance'
• Rudolf Wittkower
  Rudolf Wittkower
  Rudolf Wittkower was a German art historian.-Biography:He was born in Berlin and moved to London in 1934. He taught at the Warburg Institute, University of London from 1934 to 1956 and then at Columbia University from 1956 to 1969 where he was chairman of the Department of Art History and...
  
  , 'The Arts in Western Europe: Italy' (pp. 127-153)
• Leopold Ettlinger
  Leopold Ettlinger
  Leopold David Ettlinger was a Warburg Institute historian of the Italian renaissance and Berkeley Art Department Chair, from 1970 to 1980.-Publications:* The Arts in Western Europe: Northern Europe, in New Cambridge Modern History, vol. 1...
  
  , 'The Arts in Western Europe: Northern Europe' (pp. 153-165)
• Harold Lawton
  Harold Lawton
  Professor Harold Lawton was a scholar of French literature and, prior to his death, one of the last surviving veterans of World War I in Britain....
  
  , 'The Arts in Western Europe: Vernacular Literature in Western Europe'

II. The Reformation, 1520-1559 (1958, new ed. 1990)

Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, ed.

IV. The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War 1609-48/59 (1970)

J. P. Cooper, ed.

• Roland Mousnier
  Roland Mousnier
  Roland Émile Mousnier was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations.-Life:...
  
  , 'French Institutions and Society, 1610-1661'

X. The zenith of European power 1830-70 (1960)

J. P. T. Bury, ed.

• Michael Lewis
  Michael Lewis (naval historian)
  Michael Arthur Lewis was a British naval historian, as well as a fiction writer, who was Professor of History and English at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich between 1934 and 1955.-Early life and education:...
  
  , 'Armed Forces and the Art of War, 1830-1870'

XII. The Shifting Balance of World Forces 1898-1945 (second edition, The Era of Violence (1968)

C. L. Mowat

External links

• Cambridge Modern History at uni-mannheim.de
• New Cambridge Modern History at cambridge.org