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.
Planning and publishing
The dominions of Charles V in 1558, map from the atlas of 1912
The first discussions about creating The Cambridge Modern History took place in 1896.[2][3]
The original Cambridge Modern History was planned by Lord Acton, who during 1899 and 1900 gave much of his time to coordinating the project, intended to be a monument of objective, detailed, and collaborative scholarship.[4] Acton was Regius professor of modern history at Cambridge, and a fellow of All Souls, Oxford. He had previously established the English Historical Review in 1886 and had an exalted reputation.[5]
Cambridge Modern History Atlas (1912), title page
The new work was published in fourteen volumes between 1902 and 1912, in the British Isles by the Cambridge University Press and in the United States by Macmillan & Co. of New York City. Written mostly by English scholars, the first twelve volumes dealt with the history of the world from 1450 up to 1870.[1] The final volume, numbered 12, was The Latest Age and appeared in 1910.[6] There then followed two supplemental volumes.[1]
The history was later followed by similar multi-volume works for the earlier ages, namely the Cambridge Ancient History and the Cambridge Medieval History.[7] As the first of such histories, it later came to be seen as establishing a tradition of collaborative scholarship.[8]
A second edition of the atlas (volume XIV) was published in 1924.[9]
The Protestant Collapse (1620–30) (1) The Bohemian and the Palatinate War (1620-3) (2) The Lower-Saxon and Danish War (1623-9) (3) The Edict of Restitution and the Dismissal of Wallenstein (1628–30)
The German Empire (1) The First Seven Years of the Empire (1871-7) (2) The Triple Alliance and the Culminating Period of Bismarck's Ascendancy (3) Bismarck's Fall, and After (1888-1910)
This volume begins with an extensive introduction to the maps, written by Ernest Alfred Benians. It is divided into several sections:
I. Europe in the Fifteenth Century
II. The Age of Habsburg Power and of the Reformation
III. The Rise of France and Sweden
IV. The Formation of the Great Powers of the Eighteenth Century
V. The Age of the Revolution and of Napoleon
VI. Since 1815
Except for the first, each is in turn subsectioned for Europe and "Greater Europe", with the latter term referring mostly to the colonial empires. A separate index is provided for the introduction.
There are 141 maps in this volume. Two-page maps are bound in such a way as to prevent information from being lost in the gutter between pages. The concluding index gives the latitude and longitude of the places named.
↑ 'John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton (English historian and moralist)', in Encyclopædia Britannica
↑ R. C. S. Trahair, From Aristotelian to Reaganomics: a dictionary of eponyms with biographies in the social sciences (1994), p. 5
↑ "The Cambridge Modern History. Planned by the late LORD ACTON, LL.D. Edited by A. W. WARD, Litt.D., G. W. PROTHERO, Litt.D., STANLEY LEATHES, M.A. Volume XII: 'The Latest Age.' Cambridge: University Press, 1910.) Review". The English Historical Review. 26 (103): 612–614. July 1911. JSTOR549876.
↑ Leslie Bethell, The Cambridge history of Latin America: Latin America since 1930 (vol. 6), p. 11
↑ Roberto González Echevarría, Enrique Pupo-Walker, 'Introduction', in The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature vol. 2 (1996), p. xvii: "The Cambridge history of Latin American literature draws upon a long tradition of collaborative scholarship that began with the Cambridge modern history (1902–1912)..."
↑ William Robert Shepherd, Historical Atlas (1964), p. iv
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