| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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"-- Author's Web site. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 -- Political activity.
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Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776. |
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Political participation. |
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Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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New York (State) -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
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New York (State) |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1775 |
| Subject |
New York (State) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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To 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Dixon, John M. Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden : Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2016 9780801448034 |
| ISBN |
9781501703515 (electronic book) |
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150170351X (electronic book) |
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9780801448034 |
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0801448034 |
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