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DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton

Name: DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421424002
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Geology and Power in Early New York

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By David I. Spanagel
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 284

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David I. Spanagel explores the origins of American geology and the culture that promoted it in nineteenth-century New York. Focusing on Amos Eaton, the educator and amateur scientist who founded the Rensselaer School, and DeWitt Clinton, the masterful politician who led the movement for the Erie Canal, Spanagel shows how a cluster of assumptions about the peculiar landscape and entrepreneurial spirit of New York came to define the Empire State. In so doing, he sheds light on a particularly innovative and fruitful period of interplay among science, politics, art, and literature in American history.

List of Figures and Tables
Preamble
Introduction
Part I
1. Invitations to Study the Earth's Past
2. Natural Sciences and Civic Virtues
3. The Landlord and the Ex-convict
Part II
4. Clinton's Ditch
5. Eaton's Agricultural and Geological Surveys
6. Empire State Exports
Part III
7. Literary Naturalists
8. Kindred Spirits
9. Rocks, Reverence, and Religion
Conclusion
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

""DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton is an unfailingly interesting and informative book. It provides excellent insight into antebellum New York and neatly details how Clinton, Van Rensselaer, and Eaton had a profound impact on the intellectual and political life of New York.... This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in antebellum US history or the history of science. It will appeal to a variety of academics and should be very useful in graduate seminars.""

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