Background
Brooke, John L. was born on May 19, 1953 in Massachusetts, United States.
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One of the central controversies in our understanding of early America involves the place of republican and liberal thinking in polity and society. The Heart of the Commonwealth presents a synthetic view of the social grounding of republicanism and liberalism in Worcester Country, Massachusetts, from its settlement after the Peace of Utrecht to the eve of the Civil War, as this country's people passed through the formative fires of both national and industrial revolution. Drawing upon a wide range of sources and methods, the book examines the unfolding relationships among ideological discourse, political action, and the institutions and structures of everyday life. Most broadly, the book argues that a broad transition from a republican - or Harringtonian - consensus to a liberal - or Lockean - consensus was conditioned by countervailing episodes of insurgency, running from the Land Bank and the Great Awakening in the 1740s to the rise of political antislavery a century later.
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Brooke, John L. was born on May 19, 1953 in Massachusetts, United States.
Bachelor in History and Anthropology, Cornell University, 1976. Master of Arts in History, University Pennsylvania, 1977. Doctor of Philosophy in History, University Pennsylvania, 1982.
Visiting assistant professor Amherst (Massachusetts) College, 1982-1983. Assistant professor to professor Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1983-2001. Department chair, 1996-1997.
Professor Ohio State University, Columbus, since 2001.
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Member American Association of University Professors, American Antiq. Society, American History Association, Organization American Historians, Massachusetts History Society.
Married Sara C. Balderston, July 31, 1979.