The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History

Editors

Chris Cook
Chris Cook is a former Senior Research Officer and Head of the Modern Archives Survey at the London School of Economics and Poltiical Science. He has combined the careers of academic historian and distinguished compiler of reference works. His many publications include the Dictionary of Historical Terms (1998), the European Political Facts series and the standard Short History of the Liberal Party (2010). With John Stevenson he has co-edited the Routledge Historical Companions as well as co-authoring The Slump (2009), a major study of Britain in the 1930s.

John Stevenson, University of Oxford
John Stevenson is a former Reader and Fellow of Worcester College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on British, European and World history, including works on both political and social history. His publications include A History of Europe (2005), The Routledge Companion to World History since 1914 (2005, with Chris Cook), A History of British Elections since 1688 (2014, with Chris Cook), and William Cobbett: Romanticism and Enlightenment (2015, edited with J. Grande). He is currently editing a volume of English historical documents for the period 1914–57.

Contributors

Calvin H. Allen, Jr, Cemil Aydin, William Beezley, Jonathan Bell, Magnus T. Bernhardsson, Carlos Brando, Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude, David Buisseret, Trevor Burnard, Brian Caton, Pratik Chakrabarti, Aryendra Chakravartty, Lily Chang, Elizabeth Clapp, Peter Coates, Frank Cogliano, George Conyne, Philip Cook, R. Douglas Cope, Graham Cornwell, Martin Crawford, Robert Crews, Gareth Davies, Carmen De Michele, Elizabeth Dillenburg, Rod Duncan, Xavier Duran, Martin Durham, Howard Eissenstat, Felipe Tamega Fernandes, Jonathan Goldstein, Pablo Gomez, Leonard Gordon, Harry Harmer, Robert Harrison, Timothy Hawkins, Michael Heale, Gad Heuman, Brian Holden Reid, Nadine Hunt, Emma Hunter, Steve Jacobson, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Andrew Johnstone, Tim Keirn, John Killick, Peter F. Klaren, Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury, George Lewis, Toby Lincoln, Peter Ling, Brian Loveman, Julie MacArthur, Lisa Maguire, Bertie Mandelblatt, Robert Mason, James McClellan, John McNeill, Martin Meenagh, Ranald Michie, David Milne, Farina Mir, Rana Mitter, Ryoko Nakano, Phillip Naylor, Kendrick Oliver, Kenneth Owen, Sebastian Page, Fabio Parasecoli, Albert L. Park, Graham Pitts, Marshall Poe, Mridu Rai, Monica Rankin, Donald Ratcliffe, Vera Blinn Reber, Christoph Rosenmüller, Haimanti Roy, John Saillant, Friedrich Schuler, Daniel Scroop, Alex Seago, Ronald E. Seavoy, James Seelye, Jr, Jay Sexton, Verene Shepherd, Jeffrey Shumway, Julia Stephens, John Stevenson, John Thornton, Robert Travers, Stephen Tuck, Knut S. Vikør, Adrian Webb, Emily West, Mark White, Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Gary Williams, Wasana Wongsurawat, Khodr Zaarour, Chitralekha Zutshi