Cambridge Histories

Cambridge Histories is the essential reference collection spanning 400 volumes in 10 subject areas.

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About Cambridge Histories

Cambridge Histories is the essential reference collection spanning 400 volumes in 10 subject areas.

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

For more information, please see the latest Cambridge Histories catalogue.

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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

Revisiting the Third Indochina War
03 December 2024, Cheng Guan Ang
The literature of the Third Indochina War has been dominated by journalists and political scientists, particularly international relations specialist with an The post Revisiting the Third Indochina War first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....

The Pen and the Scalpel: Vivisection & Late-Victorian Literary Culture
23 December 2024, Asha Hornsby
In 1885, John Ruskin resigned as Slade Professor of Art to protest the establishment a laboratory for experimental physiology at Oxford University. ‘I cannot The post The Pen and the Scalpel: Vivisection & Late-Victorian Literary Culture first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....

Bonaventure’s Journey of the Mind into God
24 December 2024, Randall Smith
“No work of St. Bonaventure is more widely known and more justly praised than the brief treatise called the Itinerarium mentis in Deum. For clarity of expression, The post Bonaventure’s Journey of the Mind into God first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....

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