Books in the Cambridge Topics in History series

James VI and I is a new title in the Cambridge Topics in History series. A wide range of sources accompanied by diverse and challenging questions aid student understanding of the period.

The Counter Reformation is part of the Cambridge Topics in History series which looks at key A-level topics through a stimulating selection of original documents and other source material. It shows how recent years have seen a transformation of the term 'Counter Reformation' and a re-examination of the events surrounding the decline and resurgence of the medieval Christian Church.

Louis XIV of France ranks as one of the most remarkable monarchs in history. Dubbed the 'Sun King' during his own lifetime, his rule has since been hailed as the most supreme example of a type of government-- 'absolutism'. Yet despite his astonishing fame, many aspects of his life and rule remain a mystery. Through an extensive range of primary and secondary sources, students are encouraged to examine the questions in this book, and to assess the true nature of the 'age of Louis XIV'.

The author brings together a range of primary and secondary sources, as well as drawing on recent research, to examine key aspects of economic change in Britain between 1750 and 1850. The aim is to encourage students to consider the nature of economic revolutions.

This book for A and AS level history looks at the politics and policies of Gladstone and Disraeli through a wide range of primary sources. These include written sources (reports, letters, parliamentary papers, newspapers extracts, etc.) as well as posters, drawings and cartoons.

During the nineteenth century a powerful and unified Germany emerged from a collection of over 350 independent states and cities. Gorman uses a wide range of primary sources to look at the role of Bismarck in this transformation. This successful volume in the Cambridge Topics in History series is reprinted with a full colour cover.

Charles I's accession to the throne in 1625 was probably the most untroubled for over 200 years. Yet after seventeen years he found himself involved in a civil war and was publicly executed. This book looks at the personality and policies of Charles I, and considers how far he was responsible for his own destruction.

Through an intriguing selection of primary sources the author looks at Elizabeth as stateswoman and monarch.

This series has been devised for students who have to evaluate primary sources as part of the A- and AS-level examinations. In this original selection the authors examine these two World Wars individually, but the themes selected allow for parallels and differences to be drawn.

The Second Reich is part of the Cambridge Topics in History series which looks at key A-level topics through a stimulating selection of original documents and other sources. William Simpson examines the possible reasons why the Second Reich, established with such high hopes in 1871, came to a humiliating end in 1918.

A collection of documents for A-level students and undergraduates in the series "Cambridge Topics in History". It combines interpretations which emphasize popular response, belief and practice with the traditional approach to the origins and progress of the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland.

Intended primarily for A-level students, this work draws on a wide variety of primary sources to examine what drove Cromwell as a soldier, politician, statesman and religious visionary. The book includes examination-based questions to stretch the student's skills in evaluating historical evidence.

Hitler's rise to power and his subsequent influence on world history remains a subject of fierce debate. This book focuses on particular problems associated with the Nazi period by providing a selection of original documents showing the way contemporaries saw key events in the Nazi period.

This series has been devised for students who have to evaluate primary sources as part of the A- and AS-level examinations. This selection of contemporary documents on the Russian Revolution covers the critical events between 1917-1924.