birth_place nationality birth_date residence image article_title name occupation alma_mater
nottingham , england british-canadian 21 december 1936 burnaby , canada martin kitchen.jpg martin kitchen
 martin kitchen professor of european history university of london
martin kitchen

martin kitchen -lrb- december 21 , 1936 , nottingham , england -rrb- is a british-canadian historian , specialized in modern european history , with an emphasis on germany .
professor emeritus of history at simon fraser university , he started teaching in 1966 .
he also taught at the cambridge group for population studies -lrb- cambridge university -rrb- .
he was educated at magdalen college , oxford , and the school of slavonic and east european studies at the university of london .
throughout his career , kitchen has served in several editorial boards such as the `` international history review '' , the `` canadian journal of history / annales canadiennes d'histoire '' and `` international affairs '' .
kitchen 's work has been translated into german , polish , portuguese , spanish , korean and chinese .
he is internationally regarded as a key author for the study of contemporary history .
