Editing Adam Ferguson (section)

==Sources==
* {{A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature}}
* Articles in ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]''
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Hamowy |first=Ronald |author-link=Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |chapter= Ferguson, Adam (1723–1816) |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC   |year=2008 |publisher= [[SAGE Publishing|Sage]]; [[Cato Institute]] |location= Thousand Oaks, CA |doi=10.4135/9781412965811.n107 |isbn= 978-1412965804 |oclc=750831024| lccn = 2008009151 |pages=176–177 }}
* {{cite thesis  |author=Hamowy, Ronald  |author-link=Ronald Hamowy  |title=The social and political philosophy of Adam Ferguson : a commentary on his Essay on the history of civil society |type= PhD|year=1969 |publisher= University of Chicago |oclc=22572105 }}
* [[Lisa Hill (political scientist)|Hill, Lisa]]. "Adam Ferguson and the Paradox of Progress and Decline," ''History of Political Thought'' 1997 18(4): 677–706
* Kettler, David ''Adam Ferguson: His Social and Political Thought.'' New Brunswick: Transaction, 2005.
* McDaniel, Iain. ''Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future'' (Harvard University Press; 2013) 276 pages
* [[James McCosh|McCosh, James]], ''The Scottish philosophy, biographical, expository, critical, from Hutcheson to Hamilton'' (1875)
* Oz-Salzberger, Fania. "Introduction" in ''Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society,'' edited by F. Oz-Salzberger, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
* Oz-Salzberger, Fania. ''Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany,'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
* Vileisis, Danga: ''Der unbekannte Beitrag Adam Fergusons zum materialistischen Geschichtsverständnis von [[Karl Marx]]''. In: ''Beiträge zur Marx-Engels-Forschung. Neue Folge 2009''. Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2010, S. 7–60 {{ISBN|978-3886196692}}
* "Adam Ferguson" ''[[Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]'' 1998
* Waszek, Norbert & Hauck, Eveline. "”In the human kind, the species has a progress as well as the individual”: Adam Ferguson on the progress of “mankind”", in: ''Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment'', ed. by Stefanie Buchenau & Ansgar Lyssy, London, Bloomsbury, 2023, p.&nbsp;115-130.