Andrew C Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5166707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew C Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew C |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, TX, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7866-2587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing in Place
This special issue introduction argues for the value of place-based approaches to the past for agricultural and rural historians. It does so in three dimensions: concept, method, and narrative. Conceptually, place takes shape in tension with space, environment, and landscape. Like landscape, place allows historians to weave together nature, the built environment, and the cultural meanings people have ascribed to both over time, but in ways that p…
How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates?
We explain when and how staggered difference-in-differences regression estimators, commonly applied to assess the impact of policy changes, are biased. These biases are likely to be relevant for a large portion of research settings in finance, accounting, and law that rely on staggered treatment timing, and can result in Type-I and Type-II errors. We summarize three alternative estimators developed in the econometrics and applied literature for a…
On the Matter of Enchantment
New materialism has given me a lot to think about. At a macro level, the theory re-places humans and human history fully within a world of material things. As a theoretical framework it breaks down conceptual distinctions, arguing that there is no human history distinct from something called nature. Humans are and have always been, in Timothy J. LeCain's words, “deeply embedded in and the product of a dynamic and creative material environment.”1 …
Bulldozer Revolutions
Risk, Doubt, and the Biological Control of Southern Waters
The late twentieth-century American South hosted a thriving lakefront development industry. The arrival of the invasive aquatic plant hydrilla in reservoirs across the region during the 1970s threatened this Sunbelt prosperity. Unwilling to watch their investments become choked by a mat of floating vegetation, Texas developers pushed the state to introduce the white amur, an exotic and voracious Manchurian fish to control hydrilla. The resulting …
Leland H. Roloff
The world is not conclusion, a sequel stands beyond. Invisible as music but positive as sound.1(Emily Dickinson) I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any “discovery” we
Metropolitan Growth Along the Nation’s River
Post–World War II population growth outside Washington, D.C., brought the Potomac River’s watershed under metropolitan oversight. This article examines the history of Loudoun County, Virginia, an agricultural area thirty miles upstream from the District of Columbia, as it faced six proposed urban infrastructure projects between the 1940s and late 1970s. Tracing the history of these proposals reveals the complex interplay between the federal gover…
Race and Romantic Agrarianism
Andrew C. Baker, Race and Romantic Agrarianism: The Transnational Roots of Clarence Poe's Crusade for Rural Segregation in North Carolina, Agricultural History, Vol. 87, No. 1 (Winter 2013), pp. 93-114
Trialling a method to quantify the ‘cultural services’ of the English landscape using Countryside Survey data
Trialling a method to quantify the ‘cultural services’ of the English landscape using Countryside Survey data
Risk, Doubt, and the Biological Control of Southern Waters
The late twentieth-century American South hosted a thriving lakefront development industry. The arrival of the invasive aquatic plant hydrilla in reservoirs across the region during the 1970s threatened this Sunbelt prosperity. Unwilling to watch their investments become choked by a mat of floating vegetation, Texas developers pushed the state to introduce the white amur, an exotic and voracious Manchurian fish to control hydrilla. The resulting …
Trialling a method to quantify the ‘cultural services’ of the English landscape using Countryside Survey data
Race and Romantic Agrarianism
Andrew C. Baker, Race and Romantic Agrarianism: The Transnational Roots of Clarence Poe's Crusade for Rural Segregation in North Carolina, Agricultural History, Vol. 87, No. 1 (Winter 2013), pp. 93-114
Leland H. Roloff
The world is not conclusion, a sequel stands beyond. Invisible as music but positive as sound.1(Emily Dickinson) I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any “discovery” we
Metropolitan Growth Along the Nation’s River
Post–World War II population growth outside Washington, D.C., brought the Potomac River’s watershed under metropolitan oversight. This article examines the history of Loudoun County, Virginia, an agricultural area thirty miles upstream from the District of Columbia, as it faced six proposed urban infrastructure projects between the 1940s and late 1970s. Tracing the history of these proposals reveals the complex interplay between the federal gover…
Bulldozer Revolutions
Risk, Doubt, and the Biological Control of Southern Waters
The late twentieth-century American South hosted a thriving lakefront development industry. The arrival of the invasive aquatic plant hydrilla in reservoirs across the region during the 1970s threatened this Sunbelt prosperity. Unwilling to watch their investments become choked by a mat of floating vegetation, Texas developers pushed the state to introduce the white amur, an exotic and voracious Manchurian fish to control hydrilla. The resulting …
How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates?
We explain when and how staggered difference-in-differences regression estimators, commonly applied to assess the impact of policy changes, are biased. These biases are likely to be relevant for a large portion of research settings in finance, accounting, and law that rely on staggered treatment timing, and can result in Type-I and Type-II errors. We summarize three alternative estimators developed in the econometrics and applied literature for a…
On the Matter of Enchantment
New materialism has given me a lot to think about. At a macro level, the theory re-places humans and human history fully within a world of material things. As a theoretical framework it breaks down conceptual distinctions, arguing that there is no human history distinct from something called nature. Humans are and have always been, in Timothy J. LeCain's words, “deeply embedded in and the product of a dynamic and creative material environment.”1 …
Writing in Place
This special issue introduction argues for the value of place-based approaches to the past for agricultural and rural historians. It does so in three dimensions: concept, method, and narrative. Conceptually, place takes shape in tension with space, environment, and landscape. Like landscape, place allows historians to weave together nature, the built environment, and the cultural meanings people have ascribed to both over time, but in ways that p…
American Environmental and Regional History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)