The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden
Subtitle: empire, science, and intellectual culture in British New York
By: John M. Dixon
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780801448034
Subjects: Politics and government; Intellectual life; Philosophy; Political participation; Political activity
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enlightened age; title: Pursuit of gentility; title: Intellectuals; title: Knowledge of empires; title: Otium; title: Philosophical actions; title: Partisanship; title: Colden's ordeal.