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Saving the rules from the exceptions? John Millar, the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the family

John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment: family life and world history, by Nicholas B. Miller, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2017, xii+240 pp., £60.00, ISBN: 978-0-7294-1192-9

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