GED MARTIN

Biographic Data

ID5235013
NAMEGED MARTIN
GIVEN NAMESGED
FAMILY NAMEMARTIN
SIGNATUREMARTIN G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS75
TOTAL CITATIONS57
AUTHOR COUNT75
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1912
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Trump, Canada and ‘the 51st state

    Ged Martins, GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2025Cited by: 1

    President Donald Trump has called Canada ‘a nasty country’, although – confusingly – he aims to turn it into America’s 51st State. The annexation of its northern neighbour is an old theme in US his

  • MPs from overseas territories at Westminster: Why not

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2022Cited by: 1

  • Crisis of the British Empire: Turning Points after 1880

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2018

  • A Short History of the State in Canada, by E.A. Heaman

    Open AccessGED MARTINARTICLEThe English Historical Review2017

    For half a century, the writing of Canadian history has been dominated by ‘limited identities’, the study of specific topics confined to regions or groups, often within short spans of time. Hence it is a pleasure to welcome E.A. Heaman’s sparkling attempt to define the Canadian state (significantly, Heaman insists on the lower case) through four centuries. The term ‘state’ has different nuances of meaning in different countries. In modern British…

  • The War with Germany

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2017

  • New Zealand’s Empire

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2016

  • The British Pyramid of Power: Manning an empire in the long nineteenth century, 1800–1914

    GED MARTINARTICLEJournal of Pacific History2016

    "The British Pyramid of Power: manning an empire in the long nineteenth century, 1800–1914." The Journal of Pacific History, 51(3), pp. 353–354

  • Discovering Confederation: A Canadian's Story

    Open AccessGED MARTINARTICLECanadian Historical Review2015

  • The Elgin–Grey papers 1846–52: A triangular correspondence

    GED MARTINARTICLEBritish Journal of Canadian Studies2015References: 3

    Extensively published in 1937, the correspondence between Lord Elgin (governor-general of Canada, 1847–54) and Earl Grey (colonial secretary, 1846–52) forms a major scholarly resource for studying the evolution of responsible government. In fact, the correspondence was triangular, with Britain’s prime minister, Lord John Russell, an active third party. Most letters from Elgin were routinely submitted to him, and he frequently commented on them. H…

  • Australia and the War in the Air (The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War, Volume 1)

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2015

  • Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2015

    Camilla Schofield has written an impressive book about the political thought of Enoch Powell, particularly re-examining the roots of his notorious April 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. Schofield end

  • The British Government and the Falkland Islands, 1974–79

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2014

    To describe a book as a doctoral monograph too often signals that it is narrow and heavy. Aaron Donaghy merits congratulation for a well-researched and cogently argued analysis of the handling of t

  • Monarchy and the End of Empire: The House of Windsor, the British Government, and the Post-war Commonwealth

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2014

    Philip Murphy attempts the bold task of assessing the relationship between the British monarchy and the Commonwealth, tracing the connection from the evolution of dominion status, through transitio

  • A History of Australia

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2013

    Mark Peel and Christine Twomey Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. xv + 305, ISBN 1403938113 (hardback), 1403938121 (paperback) This thoughtful study, part of Palgrave’s Essential Histories

  • Exit from Empire: A Biography of Sir Richard Turnbull

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2012Cited by: 1

    Exit from Empire: A Biography of Sir Richard Turnbull Colin Baker Cardiff, Mpemba Books, 2010, pp. 507, ISBN 9780954202057 (paperback) Richard Turnbull arrived in Kenya in 1931. He had taken a scie

  • New Zealand in the League of Nations: The Beginnings of an Independent Foreign Policy, 1919–1939

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2012

  • Churchill

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2012

  • An Empire on Trial: Race, Murder, and Justice under British Rule, 1870–1935

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2012Cited by: 3

  • The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Round Table2011

  • Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe Journal of Imperial &…2010

  • The Workings of My Own Mind: The Private Correspondence of the Governor-General of Canada, 1839–66

    GED MARTINARTICLEBritish Journal of Canadian Studies2009References: 2

    Historians of nineteenth-century British–Canadian relations use the rich archive of Colonial Office despatches, supplemented by the private correspondence of governors-general and colonial secretaries where such collections survive. This article contends that, from 1839 to 1866 – the period of the Canadian Union – the private correspondence constituted a parallel channel of communication, operating on a quasi-official and semi-continuous basis. P…

  • John A. Macdonald: Provincial Premier

    GED MARTINARTICLEBritish Journal of Canadian Studies2007

    Although textbooks describe ministries in the province of Canada as dual premierships, contemporaries regarded the senior sectional leader as Premier. John A. Macdonald's tenure of the office from November 1857 to August 1858 was unsuccessful. The loss of seats in Upper Canada in the midwinter general election left him dependent upon French-Canadian support, and his ministry came under prolonged attack from Reform leader George Brown. Macdonald's…

  • Canada and the End of Empire

    GED MARTINARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

    Canada and the End of Empire, ed. Phillip Buckner (Vancouver: U. of British Columbia P., 2005; pp. 328. $85; pb. $29.95). This collection comprises eighteen papers by twenty scholars, all but one from a conference at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Most focus on the quarter-century following the Second World War for, as John Darwin points out, there is no precise date for the end of empire and we should concentrate on the ebbing of British…

  • Past Futures: The Impossible Necessity of History

    GED MARTINBOOKPast Futures2004

    By nature, human beings seek to make sense of their past. Paradoxically, true historical explanation is ultimately impossible. Historians never have complete evidence from the past, nor is their methodology rigorous enough to prove causal links. Although it cannot be proven that 'A caused B,' by redefining the agenda of historical discourse, scholars can locate events in time and place history once again at the heart of intellectual activity. In …

  • Sir John Eh? Macdonald: Recovering a Voice From History

    GED MARTINARTICLEBritish Journal of Canadian Studies2004

    HISTORIANS TALK A GOOD DEAL about listening to voices from the past. By this, we mean that we read what the past had to say through contemporary documents. Unfortunately, in one important respect, until the late nineteenth century we have been cut off from the sound of those voices: it is almost impossible to recapture the accent and delivery in which people actually spoke. Indeed, until the advent of modern mass media, even contemporaries had li…