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- Description
- Full text of all Cambridge history volumes (250+) published to date. Subject matter ranges
widely across the humanities with a concentration on political and cultural history. Each
volume includes authoritative narrative accounts by specialists and extensive bibliographies.
The subject categories containing the most volumes are regional history, general history (with its
chronological series) and literary studies, but there are also several series on the history of
religion, philosophy and economic history. Content is displayed as page images and can be
searched via metadata and full text.
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- Individuals may create a "My Histories" profile with their email address and personalized
password (don't use your Rutgers netID password!) to retrieve saved searches and
notes. Searched terms are highlighted in results or term highlighting can be turned off.
Citations can be exported as RIS, text, or CSV.
- Dates covered
- 1970 onward.
- Updating frequency
- Continually updated with new volumes taken from the print series as soon as they become available.
- Sources
- Digitized books.
- Type of coverage
- Full content of the titles and series of the Cambridge histories published to date.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Contains the full text of over 250 volumes of 67 Cambridge histories published by Cambridge
University Press. Each history consists of either one volume or a numbered series. The
longest series are:
Cambridge Ancient History (19 vols.)
Cambridge Economic History of Europe (8 vols.)
Cambridge History of Africa (8 vols.)
Cambridge History of American Literature (8 vols.)
Cambridge History of China (12 vols.)
Cambridge History of India (21 vols.)
Cambridge History of Iran (8 vols.)
Cambridge History of Latin America (12 vols.)
Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (8 vols.)
Cambridge Modern History (13 vols.)
New Cambridge Medieval History (8 vols.)
- Producer/content provider
- Cambridge University Press
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Cambridge University Press
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