Spencer,_Mark_G.

Mark G. Spencer

Mark G. Spencer

Canadian academic

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.

Quick Facts Born, Awards ...

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)

References

  1. [1]
    Potkay, Adam (2007). "David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America (review)". Eighteenth-Century Life. 31 (1): 81–87. ISSN 1086-3192.
  2. [2]
    Jones, Peter (2007). "David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America". Enlightenment and Dissent. 23: 216–219.
  3. [3]
    Sager, Angela Coventry and Alex (19 May 2016). "Review of Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.


Flag of CanadaBiography icon

This biography of a Canadian academic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Spencer,_Mark_G., and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.