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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 5, 2016) |
| Subject |
Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 -- Political activity
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Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 -- Philosophy
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| SUBJECT |
Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 -- Philosophy
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Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 -- Political activity
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Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 fast |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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Intellectual life
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Philosophy
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Political participation
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Politics and government
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New York (State) -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091464
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New York (State) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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New York (State)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501703515 |
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150170351X |
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1501703501 |
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9781501703508 |
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