Nicholas B. Miller, Associate Professor of History, Department of Humanities, Flagler College

Publications

Books

• John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment: Family Life and World History (Oxford: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2017): Reviews: Journal of Modern History, Global Intellectual History, History of European Ideas, Dix-huitième siècle, Das 18. Jahrhundert

Edited Volumes

• Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance, and Reform in Transnational Perspective, co-edited with Ere Nokkala and Anthony La Vopa (New York: Routledge, 2020); Paperback, 2021

• Ausblicke aus Europa für junge Europäer der Aufklärungszeit / Perspectives beyond Europe for Children in the Age of Enlightenment, co-edited with Pauline Pujo (Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2013)

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• “Trading Sovereignty and Labour: The Consular Network of Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i.” International History Review 42, no. 2 (2020): 260–77.

• “Crossing Seas and Labels: Hawaiian Contracts, British Passenger Vessels, and Portuguese Labor Migrants, 1878-1911.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 33 (2020): 69–94

• “The Perils of Progress and Gustatory Pleasure in the Scottish Enlightenment,” De Achttiende Eeuw 48, no. 1-2 (2017): 47–61

• “Espacios de pensamiento: historia transnacional, historia intelectual y la Ilustración.” Ayer: revista de historia contemporánea 94 (2014), no. 2: 97–120

Book Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Edited Volumes

• “Plantation Colonialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i: The Case of Chinese Sugar Planters,” in Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives, ed. Colette Le Petitcorps, Marta Macedo, and Irene Peano (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 177–213

• “Indentured Labour and Colonial Education: A Comparative Reappraisal,” in Post-Emancipation Indenture and Migration: Identities, Racialization, and Transnationalism, ed. Maurits S. Hassankhan, Kalpana Hiralal, Cristiana Bastos, and Lomarsh Roopnarine (Delhi: Manohar, 2023), 97–118

• “Cameralism and the Politics of Populationism: Comparative Perspectives,” in Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance, and Reform in Transnational Perspective, ed. Ere Nokkala and Nicholas B. Miller (New York: Routledge, 2020), 127–47

• “Introduction: Cameralism and the Enlightenment,” with Ere Nokkala, in Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance, and Reform in Transnational Perspective, ed. Ere Nokkala and Nicholas B. Miller (New York: Routledge, 2020), 1–20

• “El estado inca y la política del ejemplo histórico,” in Predicar con el ejemplo. Ser y deber (de) ser en lo público, ed. Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar. (Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2019), 243–62

• “Philosophical History at the Cusp of Globalization: Scottish Enlightenment Reflections on Colonial Spanish America,” in Philosophy of Globalization, ed. Concha Roldán, Daniel Brauer and Johannes Rohbeck (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), 191–204

• “Revealing the ‘Little Society’: Marriage between Sacred History and the Science of Man in Scottish Enlightenment Histories of Civil Society,” in The Changing Faces of Religion in 18th-Century Scotland, ed. Raquel Cantero and Julio Seoane (Hildesheim: Olms, 2016), 227–50

• “Schlüsselkategorie Rousseaus: die Familie,” in Rousseau und die Moderne, ed. Iwan D’Aprile and Stefanie Stockhorst (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013), 72–82

• “The Status of Women and Writing the Global History of the Family. Enlightenment and Contemporary Perspectives,” in New Perspectives in Global History, ed. Daniel Brauer et al. (Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2013), 341–52

• “Locke and His Late Seventeenth-Century English Geographical Pedagogical Context,” in Ausblicke aus Europa für junge Europäer der Aufklärungszeit, ed. Nicholas B. Miller and Pauline Pujo (Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2013), 25–56

Book Reviews

• Review of California & Hawai‘i Bound: U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848–1959, by Henry Knight Lozano. Hawaiian Journal of History 56 (2022): 150–152

• Review of The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History, by Noenoe K. Silva. Global Intellectual History 6, no. 3 (2021): 414–16

• Review of The Portuguese of Trinidad and Tobago: Portrait of an Ethnic Minority, Revised Edition, by Jo-Anne S. Ferreira. e-Journal of Portuguese History 17, no. 2 (2019): 637–40

• Review of Charles Areskine’s Library: Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment, by Karen Baston, Eighteenth-Century Scotland 32 (2018)

• Review of Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, by John Finlay, and Law, Lawyers, and Humanism, by John W. Cairns, Eighteenth-Century Scotland 30 (2016): 10–13

• Review of The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age, by Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley, Journal of Contemporary European Studies 20, no. 2 (2012): 244–245

• Review of The Enlightenment: A Genealogy, by Dan Edelstein, Contributions to the History of Concepts 7, no. 1 (2012): 102–105

Web-Based and Specialty Publications

• “Bittersweet Connections: The Mauritian Model in Hawai‘i.” Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund Magazine 5 (2020): 54–56

• “Of Dodos, Cane and Migrants: Networking Migrant Knowledge between Mauritius and Hawai‘i in the 1860s.” Migrant Knowledge (German Historical Institute), 17 June 2019

Media Publications

• “Brief aus Florida.” Le Monde Diplomatique, German Edition (November 2023): 3

Fellowships and Awards

• Portuguese Research Council Joint Award, Magellan Project, 2020–24

• Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (European), European Commission, Migknow: The Global Knowledge Networks of W. Hillebrand in Hawai‘i (1821–1886), 2021–23 (PI, award of €174,806)

• ERICS Prize, University of Lisbon, 2020 (€400)

• Visiting Scholar, East-West Center, Honolulu, 2020

• ERICS Prize, University of Lisbon, 2017 (€2,000)

• Bucerius Young Scholar Award, German Historical Institute West, 2017 ($1,040)

• Marie Curie Associated Researcher, European Commission, Worldbridges project, 2014–18

• Herzog Ernst Postdoctoral Fellow, Gotha Research Center (€4,000), 2014

• Marie Curie Doctoral Fellow, European Commission, Englobe project (€150,000), 2010–13

• DAAD Teaching Fellow, University of Potsdam (€3,000), 2010–11