Increase Mather : The Foremost American Puritan / Kenneth Ballard Murdock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murdock, Kenneth Ballard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geschichte Nordamerikas.

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.

Local Subjects:

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.): 1 Frontispiz

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II. THE MATHERS IN ENGLAND

CHAPTER III. PURITAN EMIGRANTS

CHAPTER IV. THE SETTLEMENT OF THE MATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND . - T H E BIRTH OF INCREASE MATHER

CHAPTER V. BOYHOOD

CHAPTER VI. HARVARD COLLEGE. THE CHOICE OF A LIFE WORK

CHAPTER VII. EXPERIMENTAL YEARS ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND GUERNSEY

CHAPTER VIII. BEGINNINGS IN BOSTON

CHAPTER IX. THE TEACHER OF THE SECOND CHURCH

CHAPTER Χ. PUBLIC LIFE

CHAPTER XI. LITERARY LEADER AND SPOKESMAN OF THE PEOPLE

CHAPTER XII. "ILLUSTRIOUS PROVIDENCES," AND THE FLIGHT TO ENGLAND

CHAPTER XIII. THE COURT OF JAMES THE SECOND

CHAPTER XIV. THE NEGOTIATION WITH WILLIAM III

CHAPTER XV. THE NEW CHARTER

CHAPTER XVI. THE BOSTONIAN IN LONDON

CHAPTER XVII. "DOLEFULL WITCHCRAFT"

CHAPTER XVIII. DEFENDING HIS FAITH

CHAPTER XIX. THE FIRST DEFEAT

CHAPTER XX. OLD AGE AND THE NEW CENTURY

CHAPTER XXI. INCREASE MATHER

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A. MATHER'S AGENCY AND THE PLYMOUTH COLONY

APPENDIX В. THE RETURN OF SEVERAL MINISTERS CONSULTED BY HIS EXCELLENCY, AND THE HONOURABLE COUNCIL, UPON THE PRESENT WITCHCRAFTS IN SALEM VILLAGE

APPENDIX С. LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO

APPENDIX D. CHECK LIST OF MATHER'S WRITINGS

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)

ISBN:

0-674-42942-7

OCLC:

1013938540