John L. Brooke is Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. He has won the Bancroft Prize for The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844.

A masterful work. . . . Brooke's research is impressive."--Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians|"Through their impeccable scholarship, Levine and Wilson effectively locate Whitfield as a significant figure. . . . A valuable resource for engaging with and rethinking nineteenth-century African American literary thought in order to include James M. Whitfield."--Resources for American Literary Study|"This is a work sure to provoke a reexamination of the early republic's notions of citizenship, consent, and social membership, and the legacy of the American Revolution."--Journal of American History|"A welcome contribution to the cultural history of the early American republic."--Essays In History|"Inspiring . . . . Brooke's book will hopefully provide a framework for future scholars to test as they seek to understand the process by which Americans moved from the crisis of Revolution to the establishment of a relatively stable political system."--Common-Place|"Brooke's magisterial command of the lives of a host of characters, some obscure and others not so obscure, makes for compelling reading."--William and Mary Quarterly|"An important contribution to our ongoing effort to understand nation-building at the turn of the eighteenth century. It offers crucial lessons for the present as well."--American Historical Review|"This grand work peels back the layers of the troubled and very long 'Revolutionary settlement' in New York's Columbia County. . . . Brooke has made the opaque brilliant and, in the process, highlighted useful interpretive frameworks for scholars of early America. . . . Essential."--Choice|"In remarkable detail, Brooke mines the archives to balance his portrait between the perspectives of the wealthy landowners . . . and the disenfranchised. . . . Will be valuable to students of history and political theory and others interested in America's early days."--Library Journal

John L. Brooke is Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. He has won the Bancroft Prize for The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844.

A masterful work. . . . Brooke's research is impressive."--Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians|"Through their impeccable scholarship, Levine and Wilson effectively locate Whitfield as a significant figure. . . . A valuable resource for engaging with and rethinking nineteenth-century African American literary thought in order to include James M. Whitfield."--Resources for American Literary Study|"This is a work sure to provoke a reexamination of the early republic's notions of citizenship, consent, and social membership, and the legacy of the American Revolution."--Journal of American History|"A welcome contribution to the cultural history of the early American republic."--Essays In History|"Inspiring . . . . Brooke's book will hopefully provide a framework for future scholars to test as they seek to understand the process by which Americans moved from the crisis of Revolution to the establishment of a relatively stable political system."--Common-Place|"Brooke's magisterial command of the lives of a host of characters, some obscure and others not so obscure, makes for compelling reading."--William and Mary Quarterly|"An important contribution to our ongoing effort to understand nation-building at the turn of the eighteenth century. It offers crucial lessons for the present as well."--American Historical Review|"This grand work peels back the layers of the troubled and very long 'Revolutionary settlement' in New York's Columbia County. . . . Brooke has made the opaque brilliant and, in the process, highlighted useful interpretive frameworks for scholars of early America. . . . Essential."--Choice|"In remarkable detail, Brooke mines the archives to balance his portrait between the perspectives of the wealthy landowners . . . and the disenfranchised. . . . Will be valuable to students of history and political theory and others interested in America's early days."--Library Journal

John L. Brooke is Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. He has won the Bancroft Prize for The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844.

A masterful work. . . . Brooke's research is impressive."--Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians|"Through their impeccable scholarship, Levine and Wilson effectively locate Whitfield as a significant figure. . . . A valuable resource for engaging with and rethinking nineteenth-century African American literary thought in order to include James M. Whitfield."--Resources for American Literary Study|"This is a work sure to provoke a reexamination of the early republic's notions of citizenship, consent, and social membership, and the legacy of the American Revolution."--Journal of American History|"A welcome contribution to the cultural history of the early American republic."--Essays In History|"Inspiring . . . . Brooke's book will hopefully provide a framework for future scholars to test as they seek to understand the process by which Americans moved from the crisis of Revolution to the establishment of a relatively stable political system."--Common-Place|"Brooke's magisterial command of the lives of a host of characters, some obscure and others not so obscure, makes for compelling reading."--William and Mary Quarterly|"An important contribution to our ongoing effort to understand nation-building at the turn of the eighteenth century. It offers crucial lessons for the present as well."--American Historical Review|"This grand work peels back the layers of the troubled and very long 'Revolutionary settlement' in New York's Columbia County. . . . Brooke has made the opaque brilliant and, in the process, highlighted useful interpretive frameworks for scholars of early America. . . . Essential."--Choice|"In remarkable detail, Brooke mines the archives to balance his portrait between the perspectives of the wealthy landowners . . . and the disenfranchised. . . . Will be valuable to students of history and political theory and others interested in America's early days."--Library Journal