04148nam 2200649 450 991046625250332120200520144314.01-5017-0350-11-5017-0351-X10.7591/9781501703515(CKB)3710000000631029(EBL)4517888(SSID)ssj0001639705(PQKBManifestationID)16398709(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001639705(PQKBWorkID)14791293(PQKB)11743835(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495645(MiAaPQ)EBC4517888(OCoLC)945976895(MdBmJHUP)muse51391(DE-B1597)478555(OCoLC)979729175(DE-B1597)9781501703515(Au-PeEL)EBL4517888(CaPaEBR)ebr11248551(CaONFJC)MIL1020708(EXLCZ)99371000000063102920160903h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York /John M. DixonIthaca, New York ;London, [England] :Cornell University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (260 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8014-4803-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexWas 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.HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)bisacshNew York (State)Politics and governmentTo 1775New York (State)Intellectual life18th centuryElectronic books.HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).974.702092Dixon John M.1970-1042419MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466252503321The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden2466632UNINA