Cambridge Concise Histories is a 26-book series with 26 released primary works first released in 1979 with contributions by Richard Clogg, Mary Fulbrook, Roger Price, David Birmingham, Christopher Duggan, Professor of Modern Italian History Christopher Duggan, MD, Boris Fausto, Robert Ross, Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf, Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki, Herbert S. Klein, Philippa Mein Smith, David Kirby, Steven Beller, Andrejs Plakans, Carla Rahn Phillips, William D. Phillips, B.W. Higman, Margaret Conrad, Clive H. Church, Randolph C. Head, Keith Hitchins, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Cathie Carmichael, James C. Kennedy, and Daniel Woolf.