Gordon Martel Explained

Gordon Martel is emeritus professor of history at the University of Northern British Columbia and adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. Martel is a specialist in the history of modern warfare and edited The Encyclopedia of War (2012). Martel was one of the founding editors of The International History Review, and is co-editor of the book series Seminar Studies in History and editor of the series Short Histories of Big Ideas.^[1]

In 2006, Martel revised and expanded James Joll's The Origins of the First World War.

Selected publications

Imperial Diplomacy: Rosebery and the Failure of Foreign Policy. Mansell Publishing, 1986.
The Origins of the First World War. Longman, 1987. (Seminar Studies In History)

Modern Germany Reconsidered: 1870-1945. Routledge, 1992. (Editor)
American Foreign Relations Reconsidered: 1890-1993. Routledge, 1994. (Editor)
Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered: A.J.P. Taylor and the Historians. Routledge, 1999. (Editor)

The Times and Appeasement: The Journals of A. L. Kennedy, 1932-1939. Cambridge University Press, 2001. (Camden Fifth Series)
The World War Two Reader. Routledge, 2004. (Editor) (Routledge Readers in History)
A Companion to Europe 1900-1945. Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. (Editor) (Blackwell Companions to European History)
The Origins of the First World War. Routledge, 2006. (With James Joll) (Origins Of Modern Wars)
A Companion to International History 1900-2001. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. (Editor) (Blackwell Companions to History)
The Encyclopedia of War. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. (Editor)
The Month that Changed the World: July 1914. 2014.
Twentieth-Century War and Conflict: A Concise Encyclopedia. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. (Editor)