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Marc B. Baer
Professor of History (1983)

616.395.7589
Lubbers Hall 329
126 East 10th Street
Holland, MI 49423
baer@hope.edu

B.S., Iowa State University, 1967
M.A., University of Iowa, 1971
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1976

Marc Baer specializes in modern British history. Currently he teaches British and Irish History to 1700, British and Irish History Since 1700, Modern Imperialism and the History Seminar. He also teaches in the Cultural Heritage (Introduction to Modern European History), and Senior Seminar (Exploring Faith and Calling) programs. His research focuses on the cultural, social and political history of Britain--especially London--since the late 18th century. Baer's most recent publications include "Sir Francis Burdett," in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004); "Political Dinners in Whig, Radical and Tory Westminster, 1780-1880," in Partisan Politics, Principle and Reform in Parliament and the Constituencies, 1689-1890 (2005); and "From 'first constituency of the empire' to 'citadel of reaction': Westminster, 1800-1890," in London Politics, 1760-1914 (2005). His first book, Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London, was published in 1992 by Oxford University Press. He has completed a second book, The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster 1780-1890, a cultural and political study of the West End of London between the French Revolution and World War I and is currently writing a book on major Christian figures in Britain c. 1750-1950. Besides his teaching and research Baer helped organize the Hope College Veritas Forum, and was the founding director of the College's Pew Society, which helps equip Hope students to consider and prepare for graduate school and university teaching careers.

 

Courses Taught

HIST 131 Introduction to Modern European History
HIST 280 Colonizers and Colonized
HIST 205 British and Irish History to 1700
HIST 206 British and Irish History Since 1700
HIST 495 History Seminar: Britain, 1870-1930
IDS 473 Exploring Faith and Calling

 

Current Research

The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890, a book-length study of culture and politics in London’s West End between the French Revolution and the First World War.

 

Publications

Student Online Learning Center to accompany R. R. Palmer, Joel Colton and Lloyd Kramer, A History of the Modern World, 10th ed. (2006) http://highered.Mcgraw-hill.com/sites/00731068925/student_view0/

“From ‘first constituency of the empire’ to ‘citadel of reaction’: Westminster, 1800-1890," in Anthony Taylor and Matthew Cragoe (eds.), London Politics, 1760-1914 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

“Political Dinners in Whig, Radical and Tory Westminster, 1780-1880,” in Richard Davis, Clyve Jones, and Philip Salmon (eds.), Partisan Politics, Principle and Reform in Parliament and the Constituencies, 1689-1890 (Edinburgh University Press, 2005)

“Sir Francis Burdett,” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Student Online Learning Center to accompany R. R. Palmer, Joel Colton and Lloyd Kramer, A History of the Modern World, 9th ed. (2002)

“The Ruin of a Public Man,” in James Morwood and David Crane (eds.), Sheridan Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London (Oxford University Press, 1992)

“The Memory of the Middle Ages: From History of Culture to Cultural History,” Studies in Medievalism, 1992

“Means and Ends: Computers in the History Classroom,” in Proceedings of the 1988 Humanities and Education Conference (Michigan Council for the Humanities, 1989)

“An Infinite Diversity: Religion and Pseudoreligion in Modern Britain,” Christian Scholar’s Review (June, 1989)

The Pre-Industrial City: Population and Society in Renaissance Florence (Hewlett-Packard, 1976; Laboratory for Political Research, University of Iowa, 1984)

“Political Parties of the United Kingdom,” in Vincent McHale (ed.), Political Parties of Europe (Greenwood Press, 1983)

“Guide to Machine-Readable Historical Data,” Resources in Education (December, 1981)

“Class and Community in Victorian Britain,” Journal of Urban History (August, 1979)

“Charles Tennyson D’Eyncourt,” in Joseph O. Baylen and N.J. Gossman (eds.), Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicalism (Harvester, 1978)

“Social Structure, Voting Behavior and Political Change in Victorian London,” Albion (Fall, 1977)

As well, he has given 37 papers or invited addresses, and published approximately 80 book reviews in such journals as Albion, American Historical Review, Fides et Historia, The Historian, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Modern History, Print Quarterly, Religious Studies Review, Social History Society Bulletin, and Victorian Studies.

 

 

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