Gordon Martel is

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of history at the

University of Northern British Columbia The University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) is a university serving the northern region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The main campus is located in Prince George, with additional campuses located in Prince Rupert, Terrace, ...

and adjunct professor at the

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay, British Columbia, Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1903 as Victoria College, British Columbia, Victoria Col ...

. 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

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and editor of the series Short Histories of Big Ideas.The Encyclopedia of War.
Wiley. Retrieved 6 June 2015. In 2006, Martel revised and expanded

James Joll James Bysse Joll FBA (21 June 1918 – 12 July 1994) was a British historian and university lecturer whose works included ''The Origins of the First World War'' and ''Europe Since 1870''. He also wrote on the history of anarchism and socialism ...

's ''The Origins of the First World War''.

Selected publications

1980s

*''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)

1990s

*''Modern Germany Reconsidered: 1870-1945''.

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, 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)

2000s

*''The Times and Appeasement: The Journals of A. L. Kennedy, 1932-1939''.

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, 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)

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