Mark G. Spencer Explained
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| Birth Date: | 8 September 1967 |
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| Awards: | FRHistS, FSAScot |
| Education: | University of Western Ontario (PhD) |
| Discipline: | history |
| Workplaces: | Brock University |
| Main Interests: | 18th-century British Atlantic world |
Mark G. Spencer (born 8 September 1967) is a Canadian historian and Professor of History at Brock University.He is known for his works on David Hume's life and thought.[1] [2] [3] Spencer is a winner of Governor General's Gold Medal (The University of Western Ontario) and The John Bullen Prize of the Canadian Historical Association for his book David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America.He is co-editor with Elizabeth S. Radcliffe of Hume Studies.
Books
- David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America (University of Rochester Press, 2005, reprinted 2010)
- John Beale Bordley’s ‘Necessaries’: An American Enlightenment Pamphlet in its Historical Contexts (American Philosophical Society, 2020)
Edited
- Hume’s Reception in Early America: Expanded Edition (New York, 2017)
- The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment, 2 vols (New York and London, 2015)
- David Hume: Historical Thinker, Historical Writer (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013)
- Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World: Religion, Politics and Identity [with David A. Wilson] (Dublin, 2006)
- Utilitarians and Their Critics in America, 1789-1914, 4 vols [with James E. Crimmins] (Bristol and London, 2005)
- Hume’s Reception in Early America, 2 vols (Bristol, UK; originally distributed in North America by The University of Chicago Press, 2002)
External links
Notes and References
- Potkay . Adam . David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America (review) . Eighteenth-Century Life . 2007 . 31 . 1 . 81–87 . 1086-3192.
- Jones . Peter . David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America . Enlightenment and Dissent . 2007 . 23 . 216–219 .
- Sager . Angela Coventry and Alex . Review of Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment . NDPR . 19 May 2016 . en . 1538-1617.
