Amos Eaton
Amos Eaton

Author: Ethel M. McAllister

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-01-30

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 1512817899

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton
DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton

Author: David I. Spanagel

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1421411059

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How did geology and politics inform scientific ideas and contribute to New York's prominence in the early nineteenth century? 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.

The Hudson
The Hudson

Author: Tom Lewis

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0300119909

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Offers a history of the Hudson River, looking at explorers and traders, the arrival of the colonies, how it was transformed, and the landscape.