Cambridge Concise Histories is a 22-book series with 22 released primary works first released in 1979 with contributions by Richard Clogg, Mary Fulbrook, Roger Price, Christopher Duggan, Professor of Modern Italian History Christopher Duggan, MD, Boris Fausto, Robert Ross, Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf, Herbert S. Klein, Philippa Mein Smith, David Kirby, Steven Beller, Carla Rahn Phillips, William D. Phillips, B.W. Higman, William D. Phillips Jr., Clive H. Church, Randolph C. Head, Keith Hitchins, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Cathie Carmichael, Daniel Woolf, and James C. Kennedy.