Keith Michael Baker

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PhD History Princeton University
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According to Wikipedia, Keith Michael Baker is a British-born historian. Baker received his bachelor's and master's degrees at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and completed a doctorate at University College London. He began his academic career in the United States as a history instructor at Reed College and joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1965. While at Chicago, Baker was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978. He left Chicago for Stanford University in 1988, the same year the government of France named him a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms. Baker was elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Philosophical Society in 1991 and 1997 respectively. He served as president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in 2000. At Stanford, Baker has held the J. E. Wallace Sterling Professorship in the Humanities as well as the Anthony P. Meier Family Professorship in the Humanities. He was one of three recipients of the American Historical Association's 2014 Award for Scholarly Distinction.

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Condorcet. From natural philosophy to social mathematics (1974) (213)
Inventing the French Revolution (1990) (151)
Transformations of Classical Republicanism in Eighteenth‐Century France* (2001) (120)
The early history of the term ‘social science’ (1964) (106)
Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century (2012) (94)
Condorcet : selected writings (1976) (79)
What's Left of Enlightenment?: A Postmodern Question (2001) (56)
The Political culture of the old regime (1987) (50)
Inventing the French Revolution: Fixing the French constitution (1990) (49)
The old regime and the French Revolution (1987) (47)
Enlightenment and Revolution in France: Old Problems, Renewed Approaches (1981) (38)
A classical republican in eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Guillaume-Joseph Saige (1990) (34)
The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s. (1996) (33)
Memory and Practice: Politics and the Representation of the Past in Eighteenth-Century France (1985) (29)
Inventing the French Revolution: Toward a revolutionary lexicon (1990) (29)
Yes, Throw Money at Schools. (1991) (27)
State, Society, and Subsistence in Eighteenth-Century France (1978) (26)
Inventing the French Revolution: On the problem of the ideological origins of the French Revolution (1990) (22)
French Political Thought at the Accession of Louis XVI (1978) (20)
Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind: Tenth Epoch (2004) (17)
Inventing the French Revolution: Public opinion as political invention (1990) (17)
Chapter Six. Politics and Public Opinion Under the Old Regime: Some Reflections (1987) (15)
The Beast (2019) (15)
On Condorcet's “Sketch” (2004) (13)
Year-round schools (1977) (12)
Scripting revolution : a historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions (2015) (12)
A script for a French revolution: the political consciousness of the abbé Mably (1981) (11)
An unpublished essay of Condorcet on technical methods of classification (1962) (11)
THE IDEA OF A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS (2002) (8)
CHAPTER 17 – Closing the French Revolution: Saint-Simon and Comte (1989) (8)
Political languages of the French Revolution (2006) (8)
The Schools and in-Service Teacher Education (Site) Project (1979) (5)
Scientism at the end of the old regime: Reflections on a theme of Professor Charles Gillispie (1987) (5)
In the Beginning Was the Word: The French Revolution@@@The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. I. The Political Culture of the Old Regime (1989) (4)
Inventing the French Revolution: Representation redefined (1990) (4)
Inventing the French Revolution: Controlling French history: the ideological arsenal of Jacob-Nicolas Moreau (1990) (4)
Reason and Revolution: Political Consciousness and Ideological Invention at the End of the Old Regime (1991) (4)
The SITE Project: An Experiment in Approaches to INSET (1979) (4)
Review of the energy assistance package (2014) (4)
Support for RPP2 Housing Futures (2011) (4)
A Review of Current Induction Programmes for New Teachers (1976) (3)
In Memoriam: François Furet* (2000) (3)
Sieyès and the Creation of the French Revolutionary Discourse (1989) (3)
A Bad Idea: National Standards Based on Test Scores. (2010) (3)
Inventing the French Revolution: Index (1990) (2)
Oncology support groups for out-patients. (1977) (2)
CHAPTER 16. The American Historiography of the French Revolution (1999) (2)
Inventing the French Revolution: Memory and practice: politics and the representation of the past in eighteenth-century France (1990) (2)
The origins and authorship of the educational proposals published in 1793 by theBureau de Consultation des Arts et Métiersand generally ascribed to Lavoisier (1965) (2)
The management of staff (1981) (2)
Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century (2016) (2)
The establishment of science in france. (1981) (2)
Humanism, l’Esprit Philosophique, and the Encyclopédie (2009) (2)
Interpreting the Ancien Régime : David Bien (2014) (2)
7. Constructs of Life Forms in Lavater’s Physiognomy (2016) (1)
Survey Findings from LEA Induction Programmes (1978) (1)
Change and continuity at PPA (2017) (1)
The SITE Project: Some Headteacher Views (1980) (1)
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. Volume II, The Science of Freedom. By Peter Gay, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1969. Pp. xxii, 705, xviii. $10.00.) (1970) (1)
High Test Scores: The Wrong Road to National Economic Success (2011) (1)
Why Block Grants Should Increase Administrative Costs. (1983) (1)
Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France. Robert DarntonThe Geometric Spirit: The Abbé de Condillac and the French Enlightenment. Isabel F. Knight (1970) (1)
Inventing the French Revolution: Science and politics at the end of the Old Regime (1990) (1)
A mysterious overnight disappearance of snow (1997) (0)
Julia A. Thompson (2005) (0)
10. The Liberal Mysticism of Madame de Staël (2016) (0)
The Grizzly, February 2, 2012 (2012) (0)
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation (1970) (0)
Emma Rothschild, The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History , Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. $35.00 (ISBN 978-0-691-14895-3). (2012) (0)
E-waste round up (2011) (0)
8. The Preaching Philosopher: Andreas Weber (1718–81) between Wolffian Philosophy and Heterodox Theology (2016) (0)
Training threatened by its own success. (2004) (0)
Tocqueville’s Blind Spot? Political Contestations Under the Old Regime (2006) (0)
Genesis of a Political Symbol: The Bastille, 1715-1789 (1997) (0)
Condorcet and Modernity (review) (2007) (0)
Secured cards terminal (2004) (0)
French Society And Culture Background For 18th Century Literature (1973) (0)
Public Sector Economics (2009) (0)
Translator’s Note (1997) (0)
Reviews of Books: Methods/Theory (1999) (0)
Variety review -- Jamaica 1980. (1980) (0)
Book Review:Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment Franco Venturi (1972) (0)
9. Between Myth and Archive, Alchemy and Science in Eighteenth-Century Naples: The Cabinet of Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of San Severo (2016) (0)
1. Johann Christoph Gatterer and History as Science (2016) (0)
Fathers of football : great Britons who took the game to the world (2015) (0)
Book Review:Foundations of Social Choice and Political Theory Condorcet, Iain McLean, Fiona Hewitt (1997) (0)
Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques (2016) (0)
Inventing the French Revolution: Introduction (1990) (0)
Comments on Effects of "Extended School Year Operation.". (1978) (0)
The Grizzly, March 29, 2012 (2012) (0)
4. „That Infinite Variety of Human Forms“: Modern Identity and Portraiture in Enlightenment England (2016) (0)
On Judith N. Shklar's Review of Baker's Condorcet (Volume 3, No. 4, November 1975) (1976) (0)
Book Review:Jean d'Alembert: Science and the Enlightenment Thomas L. Hankins (1972) (0)
3. Reill’s Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment and German Naturphilosophie (2016) (0)
Book Reviews (1996) (0)
Isser Woloch. The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789–1820s. New York: W. W. Norton. 1994. Pp. 536. $35.00 (1996) (0)
Book Review:The Development of Technical Education in France, 1500-1850 Frederick B. Artz (1968) (0)
Inventing the French Revolution: Notes (1990) (0)
Reviews (2002) (0)
Patent Number : 45 Date of Patent : 5 , 283 , 321 Feb . 1 , 1994 (2017) (0)
Hide and Snake (1991) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)
The Legacy of the Enlightenment (2001) (0)
Revolutionary Symbolism under the Sign of the Bastille, 1789-1799: A Prime Example of the Self-Mystification of the French Revolution (1997) (0)
Lionel Gossman. French Society and Culture: Background for 18th Century Literature. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. 1972. Pp. viii, 149. $6.95 (1973) (0)
Time for action on e-waste (2011) (0)
Condorcet and Modernity (2006) (0)
Robert Darnton. The Devil in the Holy Water or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon. (Material Texts.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2010. Pp. viii, 534. $34.95 (2010) (0)
William H. McNeill (1986) (0)
A Scale of Verbal Accessibility in Mild and Borderline Retarded Adults (1972) (0)
A Genealogy of Dr Manette (2009) (0)
The resurrection of Jesus in its Graeco-Roman setting: Part 1 (2003) (0)
Volume Information (1980) (0)
Bastille Symbolism in Modern France: The Republican Legacy of the French Revolution (1997) (0)
4. The Idea of a Declaration of Rights (1995) (0)
The Storming of the Bastille: The Historical Event as Collective Symbolic Action (1997) (0)
The Sentimental Revolution: French Writers of 1690-1740. Geoffroy Atkinson , Abraham C. KellerParis Theatre Audiences in the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries. John Lough (1967) (0)
Upcoming Events (2020) (0)
Review of The Last Pagans of Rome, Alan Cameron (Oxford University Press, 2011. 878 pp. $85.00 ISBN 978-0-19-974727-6) (2011) (0)
6. The Vital Organism in the Thought of Humboldt and Mill (2016) (0)
NHS review (1989) (0)
Year-Round Schools. The Abt Associates Series in Social Policy Analysis. (1977) (0)
The Operation Was a Success, But... (1995) (0)
Hickory Dickory Dock (2007) (0)
Twentieth Century Furniture (2002) (0)

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