DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton Geology and Power in Early New York 1st Edition by David Spanagel 1421411040 9781421411040

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ISBN 10: 1421411040

ISBN 13: 9781421411040

Author: David I. Spanagel

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.

DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton Geology and Power in Early New York 1st Table of contents:

Introduction A Meeting Place for Waters and Students of Earth History

Part I Exploring New York State

1 Invitations to Study the Earth’s Past

2 Natural Sciences and Civic Virtues

3 The Landlord and the Ex-convict

Part II Engineering for a New World’s Geology

4 Clinton’s Ditch

5 Eaton’s Agricultural and Geological Surveys

6 Empire State Exports

Part III Entertaining Deep Time and the Sublime

7 Literary Naturalists

8 Kindred Spirits

9 Rocks, Reverence, and Religion

Conclusion Echoes of New York’s Embrace of Geological Investigation

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