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Publications: Dr Robin Mills

Mills RJW ( 2020 ) . The life and times of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles. A forgotten scholar. By Timothy C. F. Stunt. (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World.) Pp. xviii + 282. London–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. €77.99. 978 3 030 32265 6 . The Journal of Ecclesiastical History vol. 72 , ( 1 ) 207 - 208 .
MILLS R ( 2020 ) . ‘L'île des bannis’: Jersey, Britain and the French Emigration 1789–1815 . European Review of History / revue européenne d histoire
MILLS R ( 2020 ) . David Hume and the Myth of the ‘Warburtonian School’ . History of European Ideas
MILLS R ( 2020 ) . Egyptomania and Religion in James Burnett, Lord Monboddo’s ‘History of Man’ . History of European Ideas
Mills RJW ( 2020 ) . The first Scottish Enlightenment: rebels, priests, and history . The Seventeenth Century vol. 35 , ( 6 ) 837 - 839 .
Mills RJW ( 2020 ) . Religion, scepticism and John Gregory’s therapeutic science of human nature . History of European Ideas
Mills RJW ( 2020 ) . James Beattie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the character of Common Sense philosophy . History of European Ideas
Mills RJW ( 2020 ) . New approaches to religion and the Enlightenment. Edited by Brett C. McInelly and Paul E. Kerry. Pp. viii + 405 incl. 7 ills. Vancouver: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018. £80. 978 1 68393 161 4 - Let there be enlightenment. The religious and mystical sources of rationality. Edited by Anton M. Matytsin and Dan Edelstein. Pp. viii + 304 incl. 16 ills. Baltimore, M d : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. £49.50. 978 1 4214 2601 3 . The Journal of Ecclesiastical History vol. 71 , ( 2 ) 439 - 442 .
Mills RJW ( 2020 ) . Berry, Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction . The Scottish Historical Review vol. 99 , ( 1 ) 160 - 161 .
Mills RJW ( 2020 ) . Hanser, Mr. Smith Goes to China: Three Scots in the Making of Britain's Global Empire . The Scottish Historical Review vol. 99 , ( 1 ) 167 - 168 .
Mills RJW ( 2020 ) . Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France . EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY vol. 50 , ( 1 ) 142 - 143 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia, written by Jürgen Osterhammel . Journal of Early Modern History vol. 23 , ( 6 ) 577 - 579 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia, written by Jürgen Osterhammel . Journal of Early Modern History1 - 3 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . Mark Towsey, Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840 . Library & Information History vol. 35 , ( 4 ) 238 - 239 .
MILLS RJW ( 2019 ) . Defining Man as Animal Religiosum in English Religious Writing c. 1650–c. 1700 . Church History
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . Craig Smith, Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society: Moral Science in the Scottish Enlightenment . Journal of Scottish Philosophy vol. 17 , ( 3 ) 252 - 256 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . The imagination in Hume’s philosophy: the canvas of the mind . British Journal for the History of Philosophy vol. 28 , ( 1 ) 202 - 204 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . J. C. D. Clark, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution . European History Quarterly vol. 49 , ( 3 ) 502 - 504 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707‐1840. Edited by Alex Benchimol and Gerard Lee McKeever. New York and London: Routledge. 2018. 247 p. 9 b. and w. illus. £115 (hb). ISBN 978‐1‐138‐48293‐7. £36.99 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐1‐351‐05642‐7 . Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies vol. 42 , ( 4 ) 557 - 558 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . The eighteenth centuries: global networks of enlightenment . Global Intellectual History vol. 6 , ( 5 ) 800 - 802 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . The pragmatist turn: religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature . Global Intellectual History vol. 6 , ( 2 ) 255 - 256 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . The Experimental Imagination: literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment . The Seventeenth Century vol. 35 , ( 1 ) 125 - 126 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . In Pursuit of Civility: manners and civilization in early modern England . The Seventeenth Century vol. 34 , ( 5 ) 677 - 679 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment: The Moral and Political Thought of William Paley . Intellectual History Review vol. 30 , ( 2 ) 352 - 354 .
Mills RJW ( 2019 ) . Global Entanglements of a Man who Never Travelled: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds . The Seventeenth Century vol. 34 , ( 4 ) 557 - 559 .
MILLS RJW ( 2018 ) . The Common Sense of a Poet: James Beattie’s Essay on Truth (1770) . Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment , Oxford University Press
Mills RJW ( 2017 ) . William Falconer’s Remarks on the Influence of Climate (1781) and the study of religion in Enlightenment England . Intellectual History Review vol. 28 , ( 2 ) 293 - 315 .
Mills RJW ( 2017 ) . The “historical question” at the end of the Scottish Enlightenment: Dugald Stewart on the natural origin of religion, universal consent, and religious diversity . Intellectual History Review1 - 26 .
Mills RJW ( 2016 ) . Alexander Ross’s Pansebeia (1653), religious compendia and the seventeenth-century study of religious diversity . The Seventeenth Century vol. 31 , ( 3 ) 285 - 310 .
Mills RJW ( 2016 ) . Lord Kames's analysis of the natural origins of religion: the Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751) . Historical Research vol. 89 , ( 246 ) 751 - 775 .
MILLS RJW ( 2015 ) . Archibald Campbell’s Necessity of Revelation (1739) – the Science of Human Nature’s First Study of Religion’ . History of European Ideas vol. 41 , ( 6 ) 728 - 746 .
MILLS RJW ( 2015 ) . The Reception of “That Bigoted Silly Fellow” James Beattie’s Essay on Truth in Britain 1770–1830 . History of European Ideas vol. 41 , ( 8 ) 1049 - 1079 .