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The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden : empire, science, and intellectual culture in British New York
- Title
- The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden : empire, science, and intellectual culture in British New York / John M. Dixon.
- Author
- Dixon, John M., 1970-
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 243 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Recreates the enlightened culture of an eighteenth-century statesman, botanist, historian, cartographer, and natural philosopher who claimed to have discovered the cause of gravity and who also became one of the most hated political figures in pre-Revolutionary New York"--
- Subject
- Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 > Political activity
- Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 > Philosophy
- Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776
- Colden, Cadwallader 1688-1776
- To 1799
- Intellectual life
- Philosophy
- Political participation
- Politics and government
- Aufklärung
- Konservativismus
- Loyalisten
- New York (State) > Politics and government > To 1775
- New York (State) > Intellectual life > 18th century
- New York (State)
- New York Staat
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Enlightened age -- Pursuit of gentility -- Intellectuals -- Knowledge of empires -- Otium -- Philosophical actions -- Against partisanship -- Colden's ordeal.
- ISBN
- 9780801448034
- 0801448034
- 9781501703508 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015036031
- 99969175863
- OCLC
- ocn921821812
- 921821812
- SCSB-1853730
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library