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Name
  
John Brooke


Role
  
Historian

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Education
  
University of Pennsylvania (1982), Cornell University (1975)

Awards
  
Bancroft Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
The Refiner's Fire, Climate Change and the C, The Heart of the Commonwealth

John L. Brooke (born 1953) is an American historian.

Contents

Life

Brooke graduated from Cornell University in 1975, and from the University of Pennsylvania, with an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1982. He taught at Franklin & Marshall College, Amherst College, and Tufts University. He most recently teaches at Ohio State University.

Awards

  • 1991 Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians
  • National Historical Society Book Prize
  • 1995 Bancroft Prize
  • 1997 Guggenheim Fellow
  • National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship

    • Works

  • The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County Massachusetts, 1713-1861. Cambridge University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-521-67339-6.  (2nd edition 2005)
  • The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-521-56564-6. 

    • References

    John L. Brooke Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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