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Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited Nauvoo in Mormon History
Author: Roger D. Launius (Editor), John E. Hallwas (Editor)
Who were the Nauvoo Mormons? Were they the Jacksonian Americans or did they embody some other weltanschaung? Why did this tiny Illinois town become such a protracted battleground for the Mormons and non-Mormons in the region? And what is the larger meaning of the Nauvoo experience for the various inheritors of the legacy of Joseph Smith? — Ki...  more » includes fourteen thoughtful explanations that represent the most insightful and imaginative work on Mormon Nauvoo published in the last thirty years. The range of topics includes the Nauvoo Legion, the Mormon press, the political kingdom of God, the opposition of non-Mormons, the martyrdom of Joseph Smith, and the meaning of Nauvoo for Mormons. The introduction provides a critique of Nauvoo scholarship, and a closing bibliographical essay analyzes the historical literature on the Mormon experience at Nauvoo.

Contributors: Roger D. Launius and John E. Hallwas, Ronald K. Esplin, James L. Kimball Jr., Hamilton Gardner, Klaus J. Hansen, Kenneth W. Godfrey, Terence A. Tanner, Marvin S. Hill, Kathryn M. Daynes, Robert Bruce Flanders, Davis Bitton, Valeen Tippetts Avery and Linda King Newell, Marshall Hamilton
ISBN-13: 9780252064944
ISBN-10: 0252064941
Publication Date: 1/1/1996
Pages: 282
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Book Type: Paperback
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