Mark G. Spencer FRHistS FSA Scot (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.
Mark G. Spencer | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 8, 1967 |
| Awards | FRHistS, FSAScot |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Western Ontario (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | history |
| Institutions | Brock University |
| Main interests | 18th-century British Atlantic world |
Books
edit- 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
edit- 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)
References
edit- ^ Potkay, Adam (2007). "David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America (review)". Eighteenth-Century Life. 31 (1): 81–87. ISSN 1086-3192.
- ^ Jones, Peter (2007). "David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America". Enlightenment and Dissent. 23: 216–219.
- ^ Sager, Angela Coventry and Alex (19 May 2016). "Review of Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
External links
edit- "Mark G. Spencer". Brock University.
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