Brendan Simms
Author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present
About the Author
Brendan Simms is a fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge and Professor in the History of International Relations at the Center for International Studies, University of Cambridge. The author of five books, including Three Victories and a Defeat and Unfinest Hour, which was shortlisted for the Samuel show more JOhnson prize, he lives in Cambridge, England. show less
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Works by Brendan Simms
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783 (2007) 193 copies
The Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806 (1997) 4 copies
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- Canonical name
- Simms, Brendan
- Legal name
- Simms, Brendan Peter
- Birthdate
- 1967-09-03
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Birthplace
- Dublin, Ireland
- Places of residence
- Dublin, Ireland
Cambridge, England, UK - Education
- German School
Trinity College, Dublin
Cambridge University (Peterhouse) - Occupations
- Historian
- Relationships
- Simms, David (father)
Simms, Anngret (mother) - Organizations
- The Henry Jackson Society
Project for Democratic Union
Bosnian Institute - Short biography
- Brendan Peter Simms is an Irish historian and Professor of the History of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Simms, a Newton-Sheehy Teaching Fellow, completed his doctoral dissertation, Anglo-Prussian relations, 1804-1806: The Napoleonic Threat, at Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Tim Blanning in 1993. A Fellow of Peterhouse, he lectures and leads seminars on international history since 1945.
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Published Review of "Victory at Sea" by Paul Kennedy in Second World War History (May 2022)
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