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Author:   Keith Michael Baker
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 6.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.306kg
ISBN:  

9780226820927

ISBN 10:   0226820920
Pages:   952
Publication Date:   18 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Swiss Family Mara “A Little Man . . . A Quick Eye” 2. On the Move 3. Making It in London 4. Locating the Soul 5. Wilkes and Liberty 6. The Chains of Slavery 7. Doctor to the Incurable Agonistic Science 8. Big Game 9. A New Newton? 10. Following Franklin 11. The Fight for Glory 12. Destination Madrid? Thymotic Politics 13. Revolutionary Rebirth 14. The People’s Eye 15. Enemies of the People 16. How Many Heads? 17. Remember Nancy 18. Mobilizing the People 19. Salus populi 20. Repression, Revision, Despair The First Modern Populist 21. A Machine That Would Not Work 22. The People’s Revolution 23. The Monster and the Mountain 24. To Kill a King? 25. A Party of One 26. The Marat Moment 27. Purge Conclusion: A Revolutionary Diptych Acknowledgments Note on Sources List of Abbreviations Notes Index

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“A monument of sparkling erudition that brilliantly achieves the daunting task of understanding the most contentious and unsympathetic of French Revolutionaries as a man rather than as a monster. Beautifully written, profoundly researched, and impressively and lucidly argued, Jean-Paul Marat is a biography for the ages.” * Colin Jones, emeritus, Queen Mary University of London * “This is a monumental and definitive biography. Through his expert knowledge and gripping, clear writing, Baker has developed a brilliant political portrait of one of the most important revolutionaries in modern history.” * David Bell, Princeton University * “Jean-Paul Marat is a dramatic story of political delusion, that concludes—in the diptych of Condorcet and Marat—in a moving and eloquent alternate vista of reason, sympathy, and the possibility of liberal society.” * Emma Rothschild, Harvard University * “An astounding work of scholarship that will be valued by French Revolution scholars for decades. Following the complicated life of Jean-Paul Marat from beginning to end, it is at once a rich analysis of his thought and an extraordinarily detailed history of the actions, beliefs, and struggles that constituted the fraught daily politics of the French Revolution.” * William H. Sewell Jr, University of Chicago *

Author Information

Keith Michael Baker is the J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities, professor of history, and professor (by courtesy) of French and Italian, emeritus, at Stanford University. He is the author or editor of several books on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. 

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