University Presses Schofield, R: The Enlightened Joseph Priestley

"Robert Schofield has done this remarkable man proud. Others may write shorter and perhaps more popular biographies of Joseph Priestley, but they will do so in the shadow of this magisterial work." - Derek A. Davenport, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry "Undaunted by the great mass, intellectual range and contextual variety of Joseph Priestley's work and life, Robert Schofield deserves our lasting gratitude for bringing to bear a scholarly lifetime's knowledge of his subject in this concluding volume of his intellectual biography." - John Christie, The Times Higher Education Supplement "No author has done a better job at laying out the complexities of a materialism that Priestley saw as compatible with Christianity and of a necessitarianism he thought would rescue Protestantism from the absurdity of Calvinist doctrine.... He has written in a masterly way about a subject that is uniquely his own." - Margaret C. Jacob, The Journal of American History"