- Annotated with suggested further readings and inline links to additional web content.

The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century age of Discovery, published by the Cambridge University Press in the United Kingdom and also in the United States.
The first series, planned by Lord Acton and edited by him with Stanley Leathes, Sir Adolphus William Ward and G. W. Prothero, was launched in 1902 and totalled fourteen volumes, the last of them being an historical atlas which appeared in 1912. The period covered was from 1450 to 1910.

III: The Wars of Religion (1904)

A. J. Butler, chapter 1, 'The Wars of Religion in France'
A. A. Tilley, chapter 2, 'French Humanism and Montaigne'
R. Nisbet Bain, chapter 3, 'The Catholic Reaction, and the Valois and Baethory elections, in Poland'
Moritz Brosch, chapter 4, 'The height of the Ottoman power'
Adolphus William Ward, chapter 5, 'The Empire under Ferdinand I and Maximilian II'
George Edmundson, chapter 6, 'The Revolt of the Netherlands'; chapter 7, 'William the Silent'; chapter 19, 'The Dutch Republic'
Thomas Graves Law, chapter 8, 'Mary Stewart'
John Knox Laughton, chapter 9, 'The Elizabethan Naval War with Spain'
Sidney Lee, chapter 10, 'The Last Years of Elizabeth'; chapter 11, 'The Elizabethan Age of English Literature'
Edward Armstrong, chapter 12, 'Tuscany and Savoy'
Ugo Balzani, chapter 13, 'Rome under Sixtus V', pp. 422-455
A. J. Butler, chapter 14, 'The End of the Italian Renaissance'
Martin Hume, chapter 15, 'Spain under Philip II'; chapter 16, 'Spain under Philip III'
Samuel Rawson Gardiner, chapter 17, Britain under James I'
Robert Dunlop, chapter 18, 'Ireland to the Settlement of Ulster'
Stanley Leathes, chapter 20, 'Henry IV of France'
Adolphus William Ward, chapter 21, 'The Empire under Rudolf II'
J. Neville Figgis, chapter 22, 'Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century'