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LEADER: 01587cam a22003378i 4500
001 2015036031
003 DLC
005 20151002084120.0
008 150915s2016 nyu b 001 0deng c
010 $a 2015036031
020 $a9780801448034$q(cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aNIC/DLC$beng$erda$cNIC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us-ny
050 00 $aF122$b.C6825 2016
082 00 $a974.7/02092$223
100 1 $aDixon, John M.,$d1970-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden :$bempire, science, and intellectual culture in British New York /$cJohn M. Dixon.
263 $a1612
264 1 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aEnlightened age -- Pursuit of gentility -- Intellectuals -- Knowledge of empires -- Otium -- Philosophical actions -- Partisanship -- Colden's ordeal.
520 $a"Recreates the enlightened culture of an eighteenth-century statesman, botanist, historian, cartographer, and natural philosopher who claimed to have discovered the cause of gravity and who also became one of the most hated political figures in pre-Revolutionary New York"--$cAuthor's Web site.
600 10 $aColden, Cadwallader,$d1688-1776$xPolitical activity.
600 10 $aColden, Cadwallader,$d1688-1776$xPhilosophy.
651 0 $aNew York (State)$xPolitics and government$yTo 1775.
651 0 $aNew York (State)$xIntellectual life$y18th century.