The Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge Ancient History ( CAH ) is a major collection of manuals for ancient history that is published by the Cambridge University Press.

The series was developed in conjunction with the end of the 19th century, developed by Cambridge University Press and Lord Acton plan a cooperative history with an international focus from which even the Cambridge Modern History ( 1902-1911, still started from Acton ) and the Cambridge Medieval History ( 1911-1936, edited by Bury ) had emerged.

A second, completely redesigned edition appeared from the 70s of the 20th century to 2005.

First Edition

The first edition consisted of twelve text and five volumes of plates and was published by John Bagnell Bury, among others; this edition was published from 1924 until 1939. More publishers were SA Cook, Frank E. Adcock, MP Charlesworth and NH Baynes. Originally, only eight volumes had been planned. The authors were mainly British in the first volumes, from Volume 6 international participation was greater.

  • Vol 1: Egypt and Babylonia to 1580 B.C. 1st edition, 1923.
  • Vol 2: The Egyptian and Hittite empires to c. 1000 B.C. 1st edition 1924.
  • Vol 3: The assyrian empire. 1st edition 1926.
  • Vol 4: The persian empire and the west. 1st edition 1926.
  • Vol 5: Athens. 478-401 B.C. 1st edition 1927.
  • Vol 6: Macedon. 401-301 B.C. 1st edition 1927.
  • Vol 7: The Hellenistic monarchies and the rise of Rome. 1st edition 1928.
  • Vol 8: Rome and the Mediterranean. 218-133 B.C. 1st edition 1930.
  • Vol 9: The Roman Republic. 133-44 B.C. 1st edition 1932.
  • Vol 10: The Augustan Empire. 44 B.C.-A.C. 70th 1st edition 1934 ( ND 1952).
  • Vol 11: The imperial peace. A.D. 70-192. 1st edition 1936.
  • Vol 12: The imperial crisis and recovery. A.D. 193-324. 1st edition, 1939.

Second edition

Conception

The second edition comprises 14 volumes ( mostly in part volumes). It has been completely redesigned and released since the 70s of the 20th century; yet the old edition of the CAH is partly still useful.

Thematically, the entire antiquity - and not only the " classical antiquity" - covered up in the outgoing Late Antiquity. Due to the strong increase in research interest in the period between Diocletian and Mohammed Late Antiquity in the second edition particular attention has been paid; the new edition ends - in allusion to the magnum opus " The Later Roman Empire " by AHM Jones - in the year 602 with the death of Maurikios or with Heraclius. In the old edition, the CAH still ended with the sole reign of Constantine the Great 324, wherein the subsequent period was treated in the old edition of the Cambridge Medieval History.

Each volume consists of essays by various authors; the structure is thus the same as for other Cambridge History manuals (New Cambridge Medieval History, Modern History, History of Iran, History of China, etc.). The authors are not only from the English-speaking world (USA, England, Australia, etc. ), but also, for example, Germany, France, Italy and Israel, among which, however, sometimes suffers homogeneity.

The CAH treated not only the history of events - this actually plays no dominant role - but rather the entire spectrum of modern historical science (such as culture, mentality, ideas, military, social and economic history ). Each volume refers to the time of printing the current state of research, and provides references to sources and further reading. However, (Vol. 12), the first volumes of the second edition already in the 70s of the 20th century, the last volume appeared but only in 2005, so that the volumes reflect the specific state of research in different ways.

Nevertheless, the value of CAH is undisputed. In German-speaking countries lack a corresponding equivalent in the university and life CAH is readily and often used as an overview.

Volumes

  • Volume 1, Part 1: Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Cyril J. Gadd, Nicholas G. Hammond (ed.): Prolegomena and Prehistory. 3rd edition, 1970.
  • Volume 1, Part 2: Iorwerth Eiddon Edwards, Cyril J. Gadd, Nicholas G. Hammond (ed.): Early History of the Middle East. 3rd edition, 1970.
  • Vol 2, Part 1: Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Cyril J. Gadd, Nicholas G. Hammond (ed.): The Middle East and the Aegean Region. c.1800 -1380 BC. 3rd edition, 1973.
  • Vol 2, Part 2: Iorwert Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Cyril J. Gadd, Nicholas G. Hammond (ed.): The Middle East and the Aegean Region. c.1380 -1000 BC. 3rd edition, 1975.
  • Volume 3, Part 1: John Boardman, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Nicholas G. Hammond (Ed.): The Prehistory of the Balkans, the Middle East and the Aegean World. Tenth to Eighth Centuries BC. 2nd edition, 1982.
  • Volume 3, Part 2: John Boardman, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Edmond Sollberger (ed.): The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East. From the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries BC. 2nd edition, 1992.
  • Volume 3, Part 3: John Boardman, Nicholas G. Hammond (Ed.): The Expansion of the Greek World. Eighth to Sixth Centuries BC. 2nd edition, 1982.
  • Vol 4: John Boardman, Nicholas G. Hammond, David M. Lewis ( ed.): Greece and the Western Mediterranean. c. 525 to 479 BC. 2nd edition, 1988.
  • Vol 5: David M. Lewis, John Boardman, John K. Davies ( ed.): The Fifth Century BC. 2nd edition, 1992.
  • Vol 6: David M. Lewis, John Boardman, Simon Hornblower (ed.): The Fourth Century BC. 2nd edition, 1994.
  • Volume 7, Part 1: Frank W. Walbank, Alan E. Astin, Marten W. Frederiksen (Ed.): The Hellenistic World. 2nd edition, 1984.
  • Volume 7, Part 2: Frank W. Walbank, Alan E. Astin, Marten W. Frederiksen (Ed.): The Rise of Rome to 220 BC. 2nd edition, 1990.
  • Vol 8: Alan E. Astin, Frank W. Walbank, Marten W. Frederiksen (ed.): Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 BC. 2nd edition, 1989.
  • Vol 9: John Anthony Crook, Andrew Lintott, Elizabeth Rawson (ed.): The Last Age of the Roman Republic. 146-43 BC. 2nd edition, 1994.
  • Vol 10: Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott (eds.): The Augustan Empire. 43 BC- AD 69 2nd edition 1996.
  • Vol 11: Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey, Dominic Rathbone (eds.): The High Empire. AD 70-192. , 2000.
  • Vol 12: Alan K. Bowman, Averil Cameron, Peter Garnsey (ed.): The Crisis of Empire. AD 193-337. , 2005.
  • Vol 13: Averil Cameron, Peter Garnsey (ed.): The Late Empire. AD 337-425. In 1997.
  • Vol 14: Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward - Perkins, Michael Whitby (eds.): Late Antiquity. Empire and Successors. AD 425-600. , 2000.
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