LEADER 04114nam 2200637 450 001 9910822427003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0350-1 010 $a1-5017-0351-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501703515 035 $a(CKB)3710000000631029 035 $a(EBL)4517888 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001639705 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16398709 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001639705 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14791293 035 $a(PQKB)11743835 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495645 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4517888 035 $a(OCoLC)945976895 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51391 035 $a(DE-B1597)478555 035 $a(OCoLC)979729175 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501703515 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4517888 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11248551 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1020708 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000631029 100 $a20160903h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden $eEmpire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York /$fJohn M. Dixon 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8014-4803-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note on Dates -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart I. Beginnings -- $t1. Enlightened Age -- $t2. Pursuit of Gentility -- $t3. Intellectuals -- $tPart II. Active Matters -- $t4. Knowledge of Empires -- $t5. Otium -- $t6. Philosophical Actions -- $tPart III. Politics -- $t7. Against Partisanship -- $t8. Colden's Ordeal -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliographic Note -- $tIndex 330 $aWas 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. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)$2bisacsh 607 $aNew York (State)$xPolitics and government$yTo 1775 607 $aNew York (State)$xIntellectual life$y18th century 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). 676 $a974.702092 700 $aDixon$b John M.$f1970-$01687208 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822427003321 996 $aThe Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden$94060510 997 $aUNINA