The New Cambridge Modern History


The New Cambridge Modern History replaced the original Cambridge Modern History in an entirely new project with all new editors and contributors. It was published by Cambridge University Press in fourteen volumes between the 1950s and the 1970s. It included a wide range of new scholarship on traditional themes as well as more coverage of science, technology, political ideas, the arts, intellectual history, and the art of warfare. The Shifting Balance of World Forces 1898–1945 brought the chronology down to 1945. The chair of the editorial board was Sir George Norman Clark.
The New Cambridge Modern History has been described as "a comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the world from 1493 to 1945".
The final volume is a new Historical atlas. Some volumes have appeared in revised editions.

Volumes published

I. The Renaissance, 1493–1520 (1957)

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1. The Renaissance, 1493-1520 1957 469 pp.

  • General Introduction: History and the Modern Historian Sir George Clark
  • 1 Introduction Denys Hay
  • 2 The face of Europe on the eve of the great discoveries H. C. Darby
  • 3 Fifteenth-century civilisation and the Renaissance Hans Baron
  • 4 The Papacy and the Catholic Church R. Aubenas
  • 5 Learning and education in Western Europe R. Weiss
  • 6 The arts in Western Europe
  • 6.1. Italy R. Wittkower
  • 6.2. Northern Europe L. D. Ettlinger
  • 6.3. Spain E. Frankfort
  • 6.4. Vernacular literature H. W. Lawton
  • 7 The Empire under Maximilian I R. G. D. Laffan
  • 8 The Burgundian Netherlands, 1477-1521 C. A. J. Armstrong
  • 9 International relations in the West J. R. Hale
  • 10 France under Charles VIII and Louis XII R. Doucet
  • 11 The Hispanic kingdoms and the Catholic kings J. M. Batista i Roca
  • 12 The invasions of Italy Cecilia M. Ady
  • 13 Eastern Europe C. A. Macartney
  • 14 The Ottoman Empire V. J. Parry
  • 15 The New World
  • 15.1. Portuguese expansion H. V. Livermore
  • 15.2. Spaniards in the New World J. H. Parry
  • 16 Expansion as a concern of all Europe E. E. Rich

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

Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, ed.

III. The Counter-Reformation and price revolution, 1559–1610 (1968)

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R. B. Wernham, ed.

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

J. P. Cooper, ed.

V. The Ascendancy of France 1648-88 (1961)

F. L. Carsten

VI. The rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688–1715/25 (1970)

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VII. The Old Regime, 1713–1763 (1957, new ed. 1996)

VIII. The American and French Revolutions 1763–93 (1965)

A. Goodwin

IX. War and peace in an age of upheaval, 1793-1830 (1965)

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Charles William Crawley, ed.

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

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J. P. T. Bury, ed.

XI. Material Progress and World-Wide Problems 1870–1898 (1962)

F. H. Hinsley

XII. The Era of Violence, edited by David Thomson (1960) Second edition, The Shifting Balance of World Forces 1898–1945 (1968)

C. L. Mowat
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XIII. Companion Volume (1979)

Peter Burke

XIV. Atlas (1970)

H. C. Darby & Harold Fullard,