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Kaplan, Steven Laurence
Goldwin Smith Professor of History
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- Professor, History (HIST), College of Arts and Sciences
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Research
Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- Idéologie, conflits et pratiques politiques dans les corporations parisiennes au XVIIIe siècle. Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine. 49:5-55. 2002
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- Le Pain maudit: retour sur la France des années oubliées, 1945-1958. Paris, France: Fayard. 2008
- Good Bread is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, The Way it is Made, and the People Who Make It. Durham: Duke University Press. 2006
- Cherchez le bon 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
- Le Meilleur pain du monde : les boulangers de Paris au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Fayard. 1996
- The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775. Durham: Duke University Press. 1996
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chapter
- Défense d'Afficher. Why France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination. 73-88. 2007
- Reconsidering Apprenticeship: Afterthoughts. Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship. 203-218. 2007
- Cherchez le bon pain : Guide des meilleures boulangeries de Paris
- La fin des corporations
- Le Meilleur Pain du monde. Les Boulangers de Paris au dix-huitième siécle.
- Le retour du bon pain : Une histoire contemporaine du pain, de ses techniques et de ses hommes
- The bakers of Paris and the bread question, 1700-1775
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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.
- “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.
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Teaching
teaching activities
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Spring 2012
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Spring 2012
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Spring 2012
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Fall 2011
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
- HIST-8005: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Yale University 1974
- M.Phil., Yale University 1968
- M.A., Yale University 1966
- A.B., Princeton University 1963
awards and honors
- Appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite by the French Government, 2001
- Winner of the Langhe Ceretto Prize , 1996
- Lauréat of the Prix Charles Aubert of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques for life-time achievement ("l'ensemble de mon oeuvre")
- Laureat of the Prix Gustave Chaix d'Est Ange of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (2008) for Le Pain maudit (Paris, Fayard, 2008)
- Lauréat of the Prix Thiers in History and Sociology of the Académie Française (2009) for Le Pain maudit
- Lauréat of the Prix Littérraire “Etats-Unis-France” for 2001 (Association France-Amériques, Paris)
- Eighteenth-Century Studies for “the best book in eighteenth-centuries studies”
awards and distinctions listing
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- 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.