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John M. Dixon - The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden: Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York - 9780801448034 - V9780801448034
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The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden: Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York

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Description for The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden: Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.

Was there a conservative Enlightenment? Could a self-proclaimed man of learning and progressive science also have been an agent of monarchy and reaction? Cadwallader Colden (1688–1776), an educated Scottish emigrant and powerful colonial politician, was at the forefront of American intellectual culture in the mid-eighteenth century. While living in rural New York, he recruited family, friends, servants, and slaves into multiple scientific ventures and built a transatlantic network of contacts and correspondents that included Benjamin Franklin and Carl Linnaeus. Over several decades, Colden pioneered colonial botany, produced new theories of animal and human physiology, authored an influential history of the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801448034
SKU
V9780801448034
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About John M. Dixon
John M. Dixon is Assistant Professor of History at the College of Staten Island/CUNY.

Reviews for The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden: Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York
Dixon urges readers to revisit colonial culture and thought and to take them on their own terms rather than as simple precursors to the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. Cadwallader Colden, Dixon argues, deserves to be recognized and studied because he 'was an important champion of colonial intellect who helped to define the social and ideological contours of moderate, ... Read more

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