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The enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden : empire, science, and intellectual culture in British New York / John M. Dixon

Author
Dixon, John M., 1970-
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Physical Description
xi, 243 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
Enlightened age -- Pursuit of gentility -- Intellectuals -- Knowledge of empires -- Otium -- Philosophical actions -- Partisanship -- Colden's ordeal.
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"--
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ISBN
9780801448034 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801448034
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-233) and index.
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