The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden : : Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York / / John M. Dixon.
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 cult...
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Dixon, John M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden : Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York / John M. Dixon. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (264 p.) : 8 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Dates -- Introduction -- Part I. Beginnings -- 1. Enlightened Age -- 2. Pursuit of Gentility -- 3. Intellectuals -- Part II. Active Matters -- 4. Knowledge of Empires -- 5. Otium -- 6. Philosophical Actions -- Part III. Politics -- 7. Against Partisanship -- 8. Colden’s Ordeal -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 Iroquois, and developed bold new principles of physics and an engaging explanation of the cause of gravity.The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden traces the life and ideas of this fascinating and controversial "gentleman-scholar." John M. Dixon's lively and accessible account explores the overlapping ideological, social, and political worlds of this earliest of New York intellectuals. Colden and other learned colonials used intellectual practices to assert their gentility and establish their social and political superiority, but their elitist claims to cultural authority remained flimsy and open to widespread local derision. Although Colden, who governed New York as an unpopular Crown loyalist during the imperial crises of the 1760s and 1770s, was brutally lampooned by the New York press, his scientific work, which was published in Europe, raised the international profile of American intellectualism. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Biography & Autobiography. U.S. History. HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). bisacsh Enlightenment, colonial botany, American intellectual culture, mid-eighteenth century, Cadwallader Colden, New York intellectuals. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110667493 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016 9783110485103 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2016 9783110485189 ZDB-23-DEG https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501703515 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501703515 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501703515/original |
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