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Magnalia Christi Americana : Books I and II / Cotton Mather; Kenneth B. Murdock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728, author.
- Series:
- John Harvard Library
- The John Harvard Library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New England--Biography.
- New England--Church history.
- New England--History--Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
- Local Subjects:
- New England--Biography.
- New England--Church history.
- New England--History--Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (508 p.): 1 Frontispiz, 1 Kte
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Excerpt from Magnalia Christi Americana, Vol. 1 of 7: Or the Ecclesiastical History of New-England The work is both a civil and an ecclesiastical hist ory.-the large portion of it devoted to Biography, affords the reader a more distinct view of the leading characters of the times, than could have been given in any other form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- Contents
- COTTON MATHER
- THE MAGNALIA
- THE IDEA OF THE WILDERNESS OF THE NEW WORLD IN COTTON MATHER'S MAGNALI A CHRISTI AMERICANA
- MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA
- AN ATTESTATION TO THIS Church-History OF NEW-ENGLAND
- A General INTRODUCTION.
- The First BOOK. ANTIQUITIES
- The Second BOOK. Ecclesiarum Clypei
- END NOTES
- ABBREVIATIONS
- ATTESTATION
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-18064-X
- OCLC:
- 1013938349
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