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Cadwallader Colden: A Biography

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Cadwallader Colden: A Biography - Schwartz, Seymour I
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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. His 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 ...

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Cadwallader Colden: A Biography 2013, Humanities Press Intl, Amherst, NY

ISBN-13: 9781616148539

Hardcover