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  title info:
    title: Europe
    sub title: the struggle for supremacy, from 1453 to the present
  name:
    name part: Simms, Brendan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (721 pages)
  abstract: If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe can control the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have set their sights on the European heartland, desperate to seize this pivotal area or at least prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. From Charles V and Napoleon to Bismarck and Cromwell, from Hitler and Stalin to Roosevelt and Gorbachev, ... Show more nearly all the key power players of modern history have staked their titanic visions on this vital swath of land. In Europe, prizewinning historian Brendan Simms presents an authoritative account of the past half-millennium of European history, demonstrating how the battle for mastery there has shaped the modern world. Beginning in 1453, when the collapse of the Byzantine Empire laid Europe open to Ottoman incursion and prompted the dramatic expansion of the Holy Roman Empire, Simms leads readers through the epic struggle for the heart of Europe. Stretching from the Low Countries through Germany and into the North Italian plain, this relatively compact zone has historically been the richest and most productive on earth. For hundreds of years, its crucial strategic importance stoked a seemingly unending series of conflicts, from the English Civil War to the French Revolution to the appalling world wars of the 20th century. But when Europe is in harmony, Simms shows, the entire world benefits-a lesson that current leaders would do well to remember.
  table of contents: List of Maps; Preface; Introduction: Europe in 1450; 1. Empires, 1453-1648; 2. Successions, 1649-1755; 3. Revolutions, 1756-1813; 4. Emancipations, 1814-66; 5. Unifications, 1867-1916; 6. Utopias, 1917-44; 7. Partitions, 1945-73; 8. Democracies, 1974-2011; Conclusion; References; Acknowledgements; Index.
  note: Brendan Simms.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History, Military
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 1492-
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
  classification: D208 .S544 2013eb
  classification: 307.76094
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Europe : The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present
    name:
      name part: Simms, Brendan
    origin info:
      publisher: Washington : Basic Books, c2013
  identifier: 9780465013333
  identifier: 9780465065950 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0465065953 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 130406
    record change date: 20250816212949.0
    record identifier: in00003385252
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng