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Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Dixon, John M., 1970- Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden : Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York. Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, c2016 ISBN 9780801448034

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Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: 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 , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7591/9781501703515

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501703515

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Umfang: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781501703515

Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: 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 , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7591/9781501703515

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501703515

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Inhalt: 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-18th century. While living in 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 decades, Colden pioneered colonial botany, produced new theories of animal and human physiology, authored a history of the Iroquois, and developed principles of physics and an engaging explanation of the cause of gravity.

Anmerkung: Previously issued in print: 2016.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version : ISBN 9780801448034

Sprache: Englisch

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Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record. , 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 , Issued also in print. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-8014-4803-4

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7591/9781501703515