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Steven Kaplan

Goldwin Smith Professor of History

Office: 344 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-2311
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: slk8@cornell.edu

Office Hours: On Leave

Courses

Fall 2009:
On Leave
Spring 2010:   On Leave

Education

Ph.D. Yale University, 1974
M. Phil Yale University, 1968
M..A. Yale University, 1966
A.B. Princeton University, 1963

Recent Publications and Awards

Books

France, Malade du Corporatisme? XVIII-XX siecles. Co. ed. with P. Minard. Paris: Berlin, 2004 (wrote two chapters and co-drafted introduction).

Cherchez le pain: Guide des Meilleures Boulangeries de Paris. Paris: Plon, 2004

Le Retour du bon pain: Une histoire contemporaine du pain, de ses techniques, et de ses hommes. Paris, Perrin, 2002.

La Fin des Corporations. Paris: Fayard, 2001.

Food and Gender: Identity and Power. Edited by Carole M. Couniham and Steven L. Kaplan. Amsterdam and New York: Harwood Academic Publisher, 1998.

Le Meilleur Pain du monde. Les Boulangers de Paris au dix-huitième siécle. Paris: Fayard 1996.

The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

Articles

“Entre la fin des corporations et l’avènement des sans-culottes: une lecture de la loi le Chapelier,” in Albert Soboul et les Sans-Culottes, ed. Armand Cosson. 2004.

“Idéologie, conflits et pratiques politiques dans les corporations parisiennes au XVIIIe siècle,” Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, janvier-mars 2002, pp. 5-55.

“The Sixties: Was Braudel a Turning Point?” Review, )Fernand Braudel Center), 24 (2001), pp. 185-210.

“Un Laboratoire de la doctrine corporative sous le regime de Vichy: L’Institut d’etudes corporatives et socials,” Le Mouvement social, no. 105 (April-June 2001), pp. 35-77.

“L’Apprentissage: un destin?” (co-authored with Gilles Postel-Vinay), Le Gnomon: Revue internationale du notarist, no. 126, 9 September 2000.

“Ordres et desordres au siècle des Lumières,” in Faut-il s’accomoder de la violence, ed. Thomas Farenczi (Paris, Editions Complexe, 2000), pp. 67-88.

“Between Habit and Necessity: The Ersatz Question in Eighteenth-Century France,” L’Histoire grande onverte: hommages à Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, ed. by A. Burgière, Joseph Goy, and M. J. Tits-Dieuaide (Paris: Fayard, 1997), pp. 379-94.

Awards

Lauréat of the Prix Littérraire “Etats-Unis-France” for 2001 (Association France-Amériques, Paris, for the best cook by any American on French subject.

Appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite by the French Government, 22 May 2001.

Eighteenth-Century Studies for “the best book in eighteenth-centuries studies” for 1996-97.

Winner of the Langhe Ceretto Prize for the best book in the history of Food for 1996-1997.