Cambridge Illustrated Histories

The Cambridge Illustrated Histories are a series of mostly single-volume history books written by experts and published by the Cambridge University Press.[1] The series has a reputation of being informative with well-chosen illustrations.[2][3]

Titles

  • Cartledge, Paul, ed. (1998). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece. ISBN 0-521-48196-1.
  • Bahn, Paul G., ed. (1996). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology. ISBN 0-521-45498-0.
  • Hoskin, Michael, ed. (1997). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy. ISBN 0-521-41158-0.
  • Marshall, P.J., ed. (1996). The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire. ISBN 0-521-43211-1.
  • Trussler, Simon (1994). The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre. ISBN 0-521-41913-1.
  • Ebrey, Patricia Buckley (1996). The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. ISBN 0-521-43519-6. (2nd edition 2010; 3rd edition 2022)
  • Jones, Colin (1994). The Cambridge Illustrated History of France. ISBN 0-521-43294-4.
  • Kitchen, Martin (1996). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany. ISBN 0-521-45341-0.
  • Robinson, Francis, ed. (1996). The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World. ISBN 0-521-43510-2.
  • Porter, Roy, ed. (1996). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. ISBN 0-521-44211-7.
  • Fossier, Robert, ed. (1997) [1982]. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages. (translated from the French, three volumes)
  • Bahn, Paul G. (1998). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art. ISBN 0-521-45473-5.
  • Bowker, John, ed. (2002). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions. ISBN 0-521-81037-X.
  • Ramage, Nancy H.; Ramage, Andrew (1991). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Roman Art. ISBN 0-521-40297-2.
  • Woolf, Greg, ed. (2003). The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World. ISBN 0-521-82775-2.
  • Ellis, Harold (2009). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Surgery. ISBN 978-0-521-89623-8. (Revised edition of A History of Surgery, 2001)
  • Parker, Geoffrey, ed. (1995). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West. ISBN 0-521-44073-4. (2nd edition 2021)
  • Ronan, Colin A. (1983). The Cambdrige Illustrated History of the World's Science. ISBN 0-521-25844-8.

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine was reissued without illustrations as The Cambridge History of Medicine (2006), which contains a new section in the last chapter.[4] Similarly, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare was republished as The Cambridge History of Warfare in 2005, and new editions of both appeared in 2020.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Cambridge Illustrated Histories". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  2. ^ Noreña, Carlos F. (2005). "Romans in Full Colour". The Classical Review. New Series. 55 (2): 614–615. doi:10.1093/clrevj/bni333. JSTOR 3873895. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  3. ^ Brieger, Gert H. (1997). "Book Review: The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine by Roy Porter". Isis. 88 (3): 523–524. doi:10.1086/383783. JSTOR 236165. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  4. ^ Warren, Peter (2008). "Book Review: The Cambridge History of Medicine". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 25 (1): 260–261. doi:10.3138/cbmh.25.1.260. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Geoffrey Parker". Ohio State University. Retrieved 17 August 2023.


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