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31%OFFBrendan Simms - Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present - 9780141037172 - V9780141037172
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Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present

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Description for Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present Paperback. Tells the story of a group of highly competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties, and also of a continent uniquely prone to interference from 'semi-detached' elements, such as Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain and the United States. Num Pages: 720 pages, maps throughout. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 494.

Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of Europe

In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar circumstances that have made it both so impossible to dominate, but also so dynamic and ferocious. It is the story of a group of highly competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties, but also of a continent uniquely prone to interference from 'semi-detached' elements, such as Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain and (just as centrally to Simms's argument) the United States.

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141037172
SKU
V9780141037172
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About Brendan Simms
Brendan Simms is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. His major books include Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize) and Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire.

Reviews for Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present
Brendan Simms is a historian of unusual range and ability ... this book is driven by two great master-ideas, and there is hardly a page in it where their presence is not felt ... the reader always has the exhilarating sense of moving swiftly onwards, in a kind of turbocharged Rolls-Royce of historical argumentation ... truly powerful and original
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