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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. 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 (Dublin, 2006)
• Utilitarians and Their Critics in America, 1789-1914, 4 vols (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. Potkay, Adam (2007). "David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America (review)". Eighteenth-Century Life. 31 (1): 81–87. doi:10.1215/00982601-2006-009. ISSN 1086-3192.
2. Jones, Peter (2007). "David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America". Enlightenment and Dissent. 23: 216–219.
3. Sager, Angela Coventry and Alex (19 May 2016). "Review of Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.

External links

• "Mark G. Spencer". Brock University.

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