The Book Prize Index

Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present

Brendan Simms

Traces more than five centuries of conflict for control of central Europe as a means for influencing global affairs, providing coverage of such topics as the collapse of the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman incursion.

HistoryWorld History · medium confidenceWorld History81 signalsLlm Classifier: World History -> World HistoryGoogle Books: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: World History -> World HistoryEmpire & ColonialismEurope & RussiaMiddle East & North Africa

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Lionel Gelber Prize: International AffairsMajor2014ShortlistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Europe90%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    Conflict in Europe over supremacy—starting from 1453—has been a means of influencing global affairs.

    Model confidence 58%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    42 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.