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13 results in The New Cambridge Modern History

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 1, The Renaissance, 1493–1520
  • Edited by G. R. Potter
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 January 1957
  • In a preface written for the paperback edition, Professor Hay examines some of the changes in Renaissance scholarship since the first publication of this volume in 1957. Successive chapters examine the social and economic structure of a continent about to establish trade and colonies in the New World, the intellectual and artistic movements which made up the Renaissance, the position of the Church on the eve of the Reformation, the political inheritance of the Middle Ages, with its rising nation states, and the growth of the Ottoman Empire.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 8, The American and French Revolutions, 1763–93
  • Edited by Elliot H. Goodwin
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 January 1965
  • This volume of the The New Cambridge Modern History looks specifically at the American and French Revolutions in the eighteenth century.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 13, Companion Volume
  • Edited by Peter Burke
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    17 May 1979
  • A comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the world from 1493 to 1945.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 4, The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War, 1609-48/49
  • Edited by J. P. Cooper
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    02 November 1970
  • War, plague, rebellions, and religious and dynastic conflicts changed the distribution of power between states, as well as their structure, when many of the social, intellectual and political foundations of Europe during the Ancien Régime were laid. The mass of the people suffered from direct and indirect effects of war, but both limited and absolutist governments and a variety of social groups strengthened themselves. In this volume, contributors discuss the shift of power and command of oceanic routes to north-western Europe, the failure of Habsburg power in Spain and Germany and the rebuilding of their power in Bohemia. The internal costs of France's victory over Spain and her international position in the 1650s are assessed. Greater immediate gains were won by smaller powers, the Dutch and the Swedes and, despite the Civil War, England. Particular attention is paid to attitudes towards absolutism and the development of scientific ideas.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 12, The Shifting Balance of World Forces, 1898–1945
  • Edited by C. L. Mowat
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 November 1968
  • This volume of the The New Cambridge Modern History examines the shifting balance of world forces from 1898 to 1945.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 5, The Ascendancy of France, 1648–88
  • Edited by F. L. Carsten
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 January 1961
  • This volume, the sixth to be published, covers the age of Louis XIV, when France played the leading role not only in the political and military sphere, but also in culture, literature and art.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 2, The Reformation, 1520–1559, 2nd edition
  • Edited by G. R. Elton
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    02 August 1990
  • This is the second, amended and enlarged edition of a familiar standard work, first published in 1958. Like its predecessor, it describes the open conflicts of the Reformation from Luther's first challenge to the uneasy peace of the 1560's. Reforming movements in all the principal countries are discussed, against the background of constitutional development and the political struggles of the ruling dynasties. Europe's relations with the outside world are given due prominence. The second edition incorporates the results of some thirty years of further research and fills some of the gaps, especially in the history of central Europe, which beset the first edition. All chapters which remain from 1958 have been revised, some very substantially.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 9, War and Peace in an Age of Upheaval, 1793–1830
  • Edited by C. W. Crawley
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 January 1965
  • The ninth volume of the The New Cambridge Modern History begins with the outbreak of war on the execution of Louis XVI, bridges the watershed of 1815 and closes, for the most part, with the avoidance of war on the abdication of Charles X. It was a period of wars and revolutions when Europe was preoccupied with France, and the role of war itself shaped the direction of change and determined its extent.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 3, Counter-Reformation and Price Revolution, 1559–1610
  • Edited by R. B. Wernham
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 November 1968
  • This volume deals with the bloody half-century that intervened between the final conflicts of the Lutheran Reformation and the first warnings of the Thirty Years War. It covers the economic consequences of the decline of Antwerp and the rise in prices; the social and political strains that produced the Revolt of the Netherlands and the French Civil Wars; the religious passions that eventually fused the local tensions of Western Europe into a general conflict between Spain and her English, French, and Dutch neighbours; and the intellectual conditions that made it difficult to find solutions for the deeper problems of government and society which the ferment of the previous century had bequeathed. It also deals with the growing struggle for Baltic supremacy, the waning menace of Turkish power, and the consolidation of European influence in other continents.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 7, The Old Regime, 1713–1763
  • Edited by J. O. Lindsay
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 January 1957
  • This volume surveys the political, military and diplomatic history of a period of changing alliances and limited and gentlemanly but frequent wars. It gives particular weight to the emergence of Prussia and Russia as European Powers and to the rivalry of France and England in America, in India and on the high seas. The economic background to these national fortunes is of increasing international trade, technological progress and colonialisation. Socially, European society slowly evolved from the domination of the aristocracy to that of urban populations and bourgeois administrators. Intellectually, the culture of Europe took on what are recognized as specifically eighteenth-century forms and ideals. From the point of view of world history this period saw the confirmation of European pre-eminence and dominion.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 6, The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25
  • Edited by J. S. Bromley
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    02 July 1970
  • Volume VI draws attention to two of the paramount developments which, with the growth of the Hapsburg monarchy, affected all of Europe and many parts of the Americas during the period under survey. War, politics, and society in Western Europe are studied from the English Revolution to the death of Louis XIV, and elsewhere from the accession of Charles XII to the death of Peter the Great (and for the Ottoman Empire to 1730). There is a survey of European maritime commerce extending to all important traffic within the overseas world, and a chapter on population and prices in Europe. Although much space is necessarily occupied by war and diplomacy, and by new methods of conducting them, the cultural and religious history of the period was of fundamental importance to the Enlightenment that was to follow. In this and other respects, the present volume complements volumes V and VII.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 11, Material Progress and World-Wide Problems, 1870–98
  • Edited by F. H. Hinsley
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 January 1962
  • Volume XI covers a period of contrasts in European and World history, of material expansion and economic depression, of improved conditions and widespread poverty and degradation, a period of armed peace. The text of the volume, first published in 1962, is reprinted unchanged.

The New Cambridge Modern History
  • Volume 10, The Zenith of European Power, 1830-70
  • Edited by J. P. T. Bury
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    03 January 1960
  • The theme of this volume is indicated by its title. The period of 1830–1870 is shown to have been the time when European political, cultural and economic dominance was at its height.