Keith Michael Baker is Anthony P. Meier Family Professor of History and Director of the Humanities Center at Stanford University. His works include" Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century. "Peter Hanns Reill is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. Among his works is" The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism."