Cadwallader Colden

Author : Seymour I. Schwartz
Publisher : Humanity Books
ISBN 13 : 1616148535
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cadwallader Colden written by Seymour I. Schwartz and published by Humanity Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete biography of Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776), the longest-serving Lieutenant Governor of New York and a brilliant intellectual, multifaceted colonial Renaissance man, and consummate royalist. This is the first complete biography of Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776), one of the most accomplished intellectual and political figures in the American colonies before the Revolution. As the longest-serving Lieutenant Governor of New York he was intimately involved in the tumultuous political life of the times. History of the Five Indian Nations (1727) was the first English history of the Iroquois and a popular book both in the colonies and in Europe. Colden was also a trained physician. Though he never practiced, he significantly improved the public health of the colony. Furthermore, he was an internationally recognized botanist, the author of the first scientific paper published in the colonies, and an accomplished cartographer who published the first map in the colony of New York. A prolific letter writer, Colden corresponded with many of the major intellectuals of his day, including Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Johnson. In addition, he wrote extensively on a wide range of topics, including philosophy, history, the natural sciences, and mathematics. Why has this distinguished individual fallen into obscurity? As an ardent royalist he was the most vilified of the colonial leaders and was even burned in effigy. This well-researched and long-overdue biography tells the fascinating story of this multifaceted colonial Renaissance man.

Author : Cadwallader Colden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada which are Dependent on the Province of New York, and are a Barrier Between the English and French in that Part of the World written by Cadwallader Colden and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Ranlet
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 076187142X
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cadwallader Colden, 1688–1776 written by Philip Ranlet and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Philip Ranlet examines the prolific political career of Cadwallader Colden. Colden was the long lasting lieutenant governor of royal New York. A determined foe of entrenched interests in New York such as the manor lords, the lawyers, and the fur smugglers, he remained a vigorous supporter of the royal prerogative. He handled Indian relations for many years and was the first true historian of the Iroquois. Also one of the preeminent scientists of the colonial period and the Enlightenment itself, he established botany in America and also tried to revise the work of Sir Isaac Newton. Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden continued to battle the enemies ofBritish rule until his death during the American Revolution in 1776 at 88 years old.

Author : Cadwallader Colden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden ... 1711-[1775] written by Cadwallader Colden and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John M. Dixon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150170351X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden written by John M. Dixon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Cadwallader Colden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden: 1761-1764 written by Cadwallader Colden and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cadwallader Colden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden ... 1711-[1775] written by Cadwallader Colden and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cadwallader Colden
Publisher : [London : s.n.], printed in the year 1767.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conduct of Cadwallader Colden written by Cadwallader Colden and published by [London : s.n.], printed in the year 1767.. This book was released on 1767 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John M. Dixon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703501
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden written by John M. Dixon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Cadwallader Colden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden ... 1711-[1775] written by Cadwallader Colden and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: