The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden [electronic resource] :empire, science, and intellectual culture in British New York / John M. Dixon.
By: Dixon, John M [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781501703515; 150170351X.Subject(s): Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 -- Philosophy | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 -- Political activity | New York (State) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century | New York (State) -- Politics and government -- To 1775Genre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 974.7/02092 Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Enlightened age -- Pursuit of gentility -- Intellectuals -- Knowledge of empires -- Otium -- Philosophical actions -- Partisanship -- Colden's ordeal.
"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"-- Author's Web site.
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