Cambridge University Press, 1968. — 874 p. — ISBN: 521 04551 7. The last volume in the New Cambridge Modern History must necessarily begin by taking stock not only of the period with which it is concerned but with its place in the series or, rather, its place in' modern history'. This was less essential for the editors of the last volume of the Cambridge Modern History....
Cambridge University Press, 1980. — 368 p. — ISBN: 0-521-22128-5; ISBN: 0-521-28017-6. Continuity and change: in a sense this is what all historians study all the time, and it is no surprise to find historical monographs on a wide variety of subjects appearing under this kind of title. Historians are professionally concerned with change, and therefore with the absence of change...
Cambridge University Press, 1964. — 736 p. — ISBN: 0-521-34536-7. The prodigious forces discovered and exploited through many decades by the inventive genius and tireless energy of the European peoples seemed in the middle of the nineteenth century to carry them upwards to the very zenith of their power. The states of Europe might subsequently rule over dominions still more...
Cambridge University Press, 1962. — 756 p. Frontmatter Introduction by F. H. Hinsley Economic conditions by Charles Wilson Science and technology by Trevor I. Williams Social and political thought by David Thomson Literature by A. K. Thorlby Art and architecture by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner Education by A. Victor Murray The armed forces by M. E. Howard Political and social...
Cambridge University Press, 1965. — 772 p. — ISBN: 0-521-04546-0; ISBN: 0-521-29108-9. Between the Peace of Paris 1763 and the outbreak, thirty years later, of the war of the first European coalition against revolutionary France, the outlines of a Western civilisation which was recognisably 'modern' in most of its characteristic attitudes and attributes rapidly emerged. A civil...
Cambridge University Press, 1965. — 762 p. — ISBN: 0-521-04547-9. An age so full of dramatic reversals of fortune and so big with consequences as that of 1793 to 1830 may seem to defy any attempt to Lcompose in one volume a survey of Europe and some of its links with distant regions. Yet the very effort to survey the field in perspective, astride the 'natural frontier' of 1815,...
Cambridge University Press, 1970. — 938 p. — ISBN: 0521-075246. For delays in the production of this volume, which has extended over rather more than a decade, the editor takes full responsibility. Its preparation has required more than the straightforward commissioning and writing of the contents, difficult as these tasks can be: a collective effort of this kind rather...
Cambridge University Press, 1970. — 750 p. — ISBN: 052107618-8. This volume examines the period of history which saw the decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War. Undeniably the first half of the seventeenth century in Europe (or for that matter in China and to a lesser extent India) was an eventful period, full of conflicts. In China a dynasty collapsed amidst pea-sant...
Cambridge University Press, 1957. — 646 p. — ISBN: 0-521-34536-7. A study of the Old Regime might reasonably be expected to go back as a far as 1648 and continue to 1789. The choice of 1713 and 1763 as JL. the limits of the period at once stresses the importance of military, diplomatic and political considerations. But in addition to international diplomacy and domestic...
Cambridge University Press, 1961. — 591 p. — ISBN: 0-521-34536-7. The first eight chapters in this volume are devoted to the more general aspects of European history in the second half of the seventeenth century. They are followed by nine chapters on the countries of western Europe — France, the United Provinces, Britain, Spain, and Portugal — with their possessions in America...
Cambridge University Press, 1968. — 576 p. — ISBN: 521 04543 6. This volume examines the period of history which looks at counter-reformation and the price revolution, 1559-1610. The half century between 1559 and 1610 must assuredly rank as one of the most brutal and bigoted in the history of modern Europe. The massacre in Paris on St Bartholomew's day in 1572; the calculated...
Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 694 p. — ISBN: 0-521-34536-7. The first edition of this volume was written between 1953 and 1956, and the more than three decades since that time have witnessed an exceptional outburst of new research and fresh interpretations. Thus it has unquestionably become desirable to offer to readers and students a revised version of the Reformation...
Cambridge University Press, 1957. — 568 p. Preface to the Paperback Edition by Denys Hay General Introduction: History and the Modern Historian by Sir George Clark Introduction by Denys Hay The face of Europe on the eve of the great discoveries by H. C. Darby Fifteenth-century civilisation and the Renaissance by Hans Baron The Papacy and the Catholic Church by R. Aubenas...