John L Brooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 378030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John L Brooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | John L |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooke |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKE J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Memoriam
The Plantation Carbon Complex
In recent years, scholars working across the humanities and social sciences have suggested that agricultural land use emissions from early modern enslaved labor plantations may have played an important role in the origins of anthropogenic, or human-induced, climate change. Yet historians of slavery and the early modern Atlantic world have been slow to engage with this argument. Focusing on the major enslaved-grown export commodities of the coloni…
The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America
Robert Churchill has written an important book, though it might be better subtitled “The Geography of Violence in the Antebellum White North.” His book certainly includes the Black experience along the Underground Railroad, in the 1840s and 1850s, but it has little to say directly about the antebellum South, and the Black experience is not at the center of his analysis. His book is primarily about the geography of while cultures of violence that …
State Formations
State Formations
Roundtable
The following exchange was the result of ongoing informal conversations among the contributors, who are all, in different ways, interested in the emergent concept of the Anthropocene and the challenges it posed, and the opportunities it provided, for historians working on Britain and the world. The conversation began at the end of 2015 and continued for about a year
Anya Zilberstein. A Temperate Empire
Why would anyone emigrate to North America in the seventeenth century? Anya Zilberstein complicates our understanding in A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America, a short exploration of contemporary debates regarding the nature of North American climate and the question of how European and African peoples would adapt to life in the Americas. Though not without some issues, A Temperate Empire is a useful contribution to our knowl…
The Birth of the Anthropocene by Jeremy Davies
The problem of the Anthropocene has hit the academy like a wave, as scholars far beyond the hard sciences are coming to grips with the implications that humanity is not just leaving a polluting mark on the earth but altering the very workings of the earth system. Davies has written an excellent commentary, which will serve both committed scholars and early undergraduates equally well.The Anthropocene, defined by the point at which the agency of h…
Malthus and the North Atlantic Oscillation
Subsequent to Harper’s review essay centered on Brooke’s Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey, Brooke concedes that he could have focused more attention on the problem of the Malthusian trap. He stresses, nevertheless, that his reservations regarding the concept of Malthusian crises in pre-industrial societies are well placed, given the concept’s prominence in the large-scale environmental histories written during the …
Forum
Climate Change and the Course of Global History
Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and climatic history explain the pattern and pace of biological and human evolution. Part II explores the environmental circumstances of the rise of agriculture and the state in the Early and Mid-Ho…
The Nurture of Nature
Town Born
Barry Levy, Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution (2009), 360 (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadephia, $45.00). Town Born is an important book t
Constituent Moments
Journal Article Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America Get access Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America. By Jason Frank. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. xii, 346 pp. Cloth, $89.95, ISBN978-0-8223-4663-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN978-0-8223-4675-3.) John L. Brooke John L. Brooke Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Columbia Rising
This book explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, ot traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen. The story of Martin Van Buren—kingpin of New York's Jacksonian “Regency,” preside…
Refiner's Fire
On the Edges of the Public Sphere
Y H ERE are the boundaries of the public sphere? Reading this collection of articles some might well wonder whether the topic of the public sphere is reaching beyond the margins of the useful, an interpretive supernova reaching a critical moment of overexpansion, deflation, and collapse. There is no cause for alarm. Rather, these articles suggest that if scholars are expanding the known horizons of the universe of the public sphere, they have onl…
Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors
Dreadful Visitations
The Battle for Christmas
Reason and Passion in the Public Sphere
July 01 1998 Reason and Passion in the Public Sphere: Habermas and the Cultural Historians John L. Brooke John L. Brooke Professor of History, Tufts University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John L. Brooke Professor of History, Tufts University Online Issn: 1530-9169 Print Issn: 0022-1953 © 1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The Journal of Interdisciplin…
Revolutionary Brotherhood
The Refiner's Fire
List of illustrations List of maps Preface Part I. A Prepared People: 1. Dreams of the primal Adam 2. The true spiritual seed 3. Something of our ancestors Part II. Hermetic Purity and Hermetic Danger: 4. A Urim spiritual 5. Alchymical experiments 6. I was born in Sharon Part III. The Mormon Dispensation: 7. Secret combinations and slippery treasures in the land of Zarahemla 8. The mysteries defined 9. Temples, wives, bogus-making and war 10. The…
The Refiner's Fire
Inventing Mormonism
Roundtable
The following exchange was the result of ongoing informal conversations among the contributors, who are all, in different ways, interested in the emergent concept of the Anthropocene and the challenges it posed, and the opportunities it provided, for historians working on Britain and the world. The conversation began at the end of 2015 and continued for about a year
Reason and Passion in the Public Sphere
July 01 1998 Reason and Passion in the Public Sphere: Habermas and the Cultural Historians John L. Brooke John L. Brooke Professor of History, Tufts University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John L. Brooke Professor of History, Tufts University Online Issn: 1530-9169 Print Issn: 0022-1953 © 1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The Journal of Interdisciplin…
Constituent Moments
Journal Article Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America Get access Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America. By Jason Frank. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. xii, 346 pp. Cloth, $89.95, ISBN978-0-8223-4663-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN978-0-8223-4675-3.) John L. Brooke John L. Brooke Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
To the Quiet of the People
Forum
Of whole nations being born in one day
On the Edges of the Public Sphere
Y H ERE are the boundaries of the public sphere? Reading this collection of articles some might well wonder whether the topic of the public sphere is reaching beyond the margins of the useful, an interpretive supernova reaching a critical moment of overexpansion, deflation, and collapse. There is no cause for alarm. Rather, these articles suggest that if scholars are expanding the known horizons of the universe of the public sphere, they have onl…
Imperative Categories
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access JOHN BROOKE JOHN BROOKE London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXX, Issue CCCXVI, July 1965, Pages 615–616, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXX.CCCXVI.615 Published: 01 July 1965
International Relations and Politics
Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
Enterrement, baptême et communauté en Nouvelle-Angleterre (1730-1790)
Fils d'une famille de petite noblesse appartenant à la paroisse nord de Brookfield, dans le Massachusetts, Benjamin Gilbert se révèle, à travers son journal, un jeune homme tapageur, assez représentatif de l'époque révolutionnaire et du XVIIIe siècle. Dans les camps établis en bordure de l'Hudson, il ne participait jamais aux assemblées religieuses, mais il avait observé les rites séculiers de la franc-maçonnerie qui se tenaient sous la tente du …
To the Quiet of the People
A Sermon in the Desert
The Revolution and the Rise of Capitalism in Rural New England
Talking and Reading in Early America
Imperative Categories
The Heart of the Commonwealth
Journal Article The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713–1861. By John L. Brooke. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xxii + 446 pp. $34.50.) Get access Van Beck Hall Van Beck Hall University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 297–298, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
The Heart of the Commonwealth
Of whole nations being born in one day
The letters of the republic
(1992). The letters of the republic: Publication and the public sphere in eighteenth-century America. History of European Ideas: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 608-609
The Rude Hand of Innovation
Journal Article The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York, 1652–1836. By David G. Hackett. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi + 240 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-506513-1.) Get access John L. Brooke John L. Brooke Tufts University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 627, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080066 Pub…
Valley of Opportunity
The Heart of the Commonwealth
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630-1789
Short notices
Stephen Foster, The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1370–1700 (1991), xx + 395 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C., for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., $39.95). Richard T. Vann and David Eversley, Friends in Life and Death: The British and Irish Quakers in the Demographic Transition (1992), xx + 281 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £32.50).…
The Heart of the Commonwealth
Right and Might
Journal Article “Right and Might: The Dorr Rebelhon and the Struggle for Equal Rights.” Rhode Island Historical Society, 110 Benevolent St., Providence, RI 02806 Get access John L. Brooke John L. Brooke Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 192–198, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079704 Published: 01 June 1993
The Refiner's Fire
This 1995 book presents an alternative and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion, which proposes that the faithful will become gods. The book's central thesis is that the origins of Mormonism lie in the fusion of radical religion with magical ideas about recovering the divine powers of Adam lost in the fall from Paradise (ideas known as the hermetic philosophy) that occurred during the Reformation and the English Revolution.…
Revolution in the Green Mountains
National historiographical fashions powerfully shape the histories of states and localities; that of revolutionary Vermont provides only one excellent example. The historians of early Vermont can be very broadly divided into celebrators, revisionists, and social historians. From the age of Bancroft through the 1940s, the celebrationists-Zadock Thompson, Rowland Robinson, Frederic Van de Water-lovingly glorified the heroism of stalwart pioneers an…
Inventing Mormonism
The Mysteries of Mormonism
The Mormon Hierarchy
Journal Article The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power. By D. Michael Quinn and The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship. By David John Buerger. San Francisco; Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess. By Richard S. Van Wagoner; The Journals of William E. McLellin, 1831–1836. Ed. by Jan Shipps and John W. Welch. Provo: byu Studies Get access John L. Brooke John L. Brooke Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Search f…
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