Alan Baker (geographer)


Alan Reginald Harold Baker, FBA is a British geographer. He has been a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, since 1970. Having graduated from the University of London with a BA in 1960 and a PhD in 1963, he was a lecturer at the University of London and then the University of Cambridge. He was head of the Department of Geography at Cambridge from 1989 to 1994. He was Editor of the Journal of Historical Geography and Co-editor of 44 books in the Cambridge University Press' series Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography.
Baker was appointed a chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms in 1997, was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Gill Memorial Award in 1974 and its Founders Medal in 2009, and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2010. He was the subject of a festschrift: Iain S. Black and R. A. Butlin, Place, Culture and Identity: Essays in Historical Geography in Honour of Alan R. H. Baker.

Publications

Geographical Interpretations of Historical Sources: Readings in Historical Geography Progress in Human Geography Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles Man Made the Land: Essays in English Historical Geography Historical Geography and Geographical Change, Aspects of Geography Period and Place: Research Methods in Historical Geography Explorations in Historical Geography: Interpretative Essays, Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, vol. 5 Fraternity among the French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815–1914 Geography and History: Bridging the Divide Geographies of England: The North–South Divide, Material and Imagined Home and Colonial: Essays on Landscape, Ireland, Environment and Empire in Celebration of Robin Butlin's Contribution to Historical Geography Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective: Essays on the Meanings of Some Places in the Past Amateur Musical Societies and Sports Clubs in Provincial France, 1848–1914: Harmony and Hostility A French Reading Revolution? The Development, Distribution and Cultural Significance of Bibliothèques Populaires, 1860–1900
  • ''The Personality of Paris: Landscape and Society in the Long-Nineteenth Century''