(Translation of German review) 'Miller's John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment- Family Life and World History is an exciting study that is convincingly engaged in several important topics of Enlightenment research: the creation of knowledge, the beginning of a global historiography, and is focused on a single Enlightenment figure whose work was already described by Nicholas B. Miller's predecessors as a forerunner of modern sociology.'- Bettina Burger, DAS ACHTZEHNTE JAHRHUNDERT: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur die Erforschung des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Polygamy: an adversary of Enlightenment2. Before patriarchy: maternal power in primitive societies3. The Amazons and the fringes of enlightened thought4. Race, conquest and the family: Enlightenment assessments of the domestic order of colonial Spanish America5. Family and state after the rise of the individual: John Millar’s reforms for commercial societyConclusionBibliographyIndex

(Translation of German review) 'Miller's John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment- Family Life and World History is an exciting study that is convincingly engaged in several important topics of Enlightenment research: the creation of knowledge, the beginning of a global historiography, and is focused on a single Enlightenment figure whose work was already described by Nicholas B. Miller's predecessors as a forerunner of modern sociology.'- Bettina Burger, DAS ACHTZEHNTE JAHRHUNDERT: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur die Erforschung des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Polygamy: an adversary of Enlightenment2. Before patriarchy: maternal power in primitive societies3. The Amazons and the fringes of enlightened thought4. Race, conquest and the family: Enlightenment assessments of the domestic order of colonial Spanish America5. Family and state after the rise of the individual: John Millar’s reforms for commercial societyConclusionBibliographyIndex

(Translation of German review) 'Miller's John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment- Family Life and World History is an exciting study that is convincingly engaged in several important topics of Enlightenment research: the creation of knowledge, the beginning of a global historiography, and is focused on a single Enlightenment figure whose work was already described by Nicholas B. Miller's predecessors as a forerunner of modern sociology.'- Bettina Burger, DAS ACHTZEHNTE JAHRHUNDERT: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur die Erforschung des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Polygamy: an adversary of Enlightenment2. Before patriarchy: maternal power in primitive societies3. The Amazons and the fringes of enlightened thought4. Race, conquest and the family: Enlightenment assessments of the domestic order of colonial Spanish America5. Family and state after the rise of the individual: John Millar’s reforms for commercial societyConclusionBibliographyIndex