The Cambridge Modern History
Chapter Title Author
Introductory Note Mandell Creighton
1 The Age of Discovery Edward John Payne
2 The New World Edward John Payne
3 The Ottoman Conquest John Bagnell Bury
4 Italy and her Invaders Stanley Mordaunt Leathes
5 Florence ( I ) : Savonarola Edward Armstrong
6 Florence ( II ) : Macchiavelli Laurence Arthur Burd
7 Rome and the Temporal Power Richard Garnett
8 Venice Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
9 Germany and the Empire Thomas Frederick Tout
10 Hungary and the Slavonic Kingdoms Emil Reich
11 The Catholic Kings Henry Butler Clarke
12 France Stanley Mordaunt Leathes
13 The Netherlands Adolphus William Ward
14 The Early Tudors James Gairdner
15 Economic Change William Cunningham
16 The Classical Renaissance Richard Claverhouse Jebb
17 The Christian Renaissance Montague Rhodes James
18 Catholic Europe William Francis Barry
19 The Eve of the Reformation Henry Charles Lea
Planning and publishing -- Volumes published
The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery, published by the Cambridge University Press in England and also in the United States. The first series, planned by Lord Acton and edited by him with Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Sir Adolphus William Ward and G. W. Prothero, was launched in 1902 and totalled fourteen volumes, the last of them being an historical atlas which appeared in 1912. The period covered was from 1450 to 1910. Each volume includes an extensive bibliography. A second series, with entirely new editors and contributors, The New Cambridge Modern History, appeared in fourteen volumes between 1957 and 1979, again concluding with an atlas. It covered the world from 1450 to 1945.