First published in 1902, the Cambridge Histories is a globally respected series of over 400 volumes spanning fifteen subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.

Presenting history as a continuous and evolutionary process, the Cambridge Histories offer a big picture perspective in each subject area, making them essential reading for anyone researching or studying a subject that has an historical element.

This site allows instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series, searchable by author, title and subject. Continually updated with new volumes taken from the print series as soon as they become available, this collection represents an impressive breadth and depth of scholarship that offers an unmatched resource for today's historians.

Key Features:

• First published in 1902, the Cambridge Histories series now contains over 400 volumes, equating to around 196,000 pages of unrivalled scholarship
• Unlimited concurrent users, meaning any number of readers can access the resource simultaneously
• Covers multiple academic subjects across the humanities and social sciences
• eBooks are accessible via all devices and will automatically adjust to allow easy reading on your preferred device
• Content searchable via metadata and fulltext
• Easy navigation to the content you need at book and chapter levels
• Individual chapters available in PDF to download and print
• Users have the ability to save their searches and content to their bookmarks for easy access at a later date
• Extensive bibliographic reference functionality; fully referenced content with all references displayed, OpenURL compliant and linked online through CrossRef

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Praise for Cambridge Histories

Review of The Cambridge History of the Cold War:

"As a source of essential information about the Cold War, this Cambridge History is going to be hard to beat." Times Literary Supplement

Review of The Cambridge World Prehistory:

"This detailed, lavishly illustrated three-volume set provides a unique, very readable synthesis of available contemporary data from the combined disciplines of archaeology, genetics, and linguistics to delineate the prehistoric record for each geographic section of the planet in 104 essays by contributors from 20 nations … This is a valuable resource for college, university, and museum libraries." Choice

Review of The Cambridge History of Musical Performance:

"It provides a glorious, grandstand view of the institutions, and the social and technological forces, that have generated decisive changes in performance." BBC Music

Review of The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature:

"This book is a prodigious achievement. Meticulously edited and beautifully produced, with a multifaceted chronology as an appendix, its essays are marvels of compressed and incisive critical judgment. The expert contributors combine breadth of coverage and depth of reflection with tremendous assurance.' Times Literary Supplement

Review of The Cambridge History of the First World War:

"The single most important piece of collective scholarship to emerge from the centenary." BBC History

Awards for Cambridge Histories include:

The Cambridge History of the First World War
Winner, 2015 PROSE Award for Excellence in Reference Works

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
Winner, 2008 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics
Winner, 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The New Cambridge History of the Bible
Winner, 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The Cambridge History of Judaism
Winner, Jewish Book Award in Reference