Modern Library Chronicles

Template:Short description The Modern Library Chronicles are a series of short books published by the American publisher, Modern Library. Most of the books are under 150 pages in length and intended to introduce readers to a period of history.

A partial list includes:

• The Renaissance, by Paul Johnson
• Islam: A Short History, by Karen Armstrong
• The Balkans, by Mark Mazower
• The German Empire: 1870-1918, by Michael Stürmer
• , by Hans Küng
• Peoples and Empires, by Anthony Pagden
• Communism, by Richard Pipes
• Hitler and the Holocaust, by Robert S. Wistrich
• The American Revolution, by Gordon S. Wood
• Law in America, by Lawrence Friedman
• Inventing Japan: 1853-1964, by Ian Buruma
• The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
• The Americas: A Hemispheric History, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
• The Boys' Crusade, by Paul Fussell
• The Age of Shakespeare, by Frank Kermode
• The Age of Napoleon, by Alistair Horne
• Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory, by Edward J. Larson
• London: A History, by A.N. Wilson
• The Reformation: A History, by Patrick Collinson
• Nazism and War, by Richard Bessel
• The City, by Joel Kotkin
• Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics, by David Berlinski
• California: A History, by Kevin Starr
• Storm from the East: The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian West, by Milton Viorst
• Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game, by George Vecsey
• Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
• The Hellenistic Age: A Short History, by Peter Green
• A Short History of Medicine, by F. Gonzalez-Crussi
• The Christian World, by Martin Marty
• Prehistory, by Colin Renfrew
• Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History, by Margaret MacMillan
• Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment, by Stephen Kotkin
• The Korean War: A History, by Bruce Cummings
• The Romantic Revolution: A History, by Tim Blanning