Kingdom of Nauvoo : the rise and fall of a religious empire on the American frontier / Benjamin E. Park.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Benjamin E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Latter Day Saint churches--Illinois--History.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Latter Day Saints--Mississippi River Valley--History.

Latter Day Saints.

History.

Nauvoo (Ill.)--History.

Nauvoo (Ill.).

Illinois.

Illinois--Nauvoo.

Mississippi River Valley.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

324 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020]

Summary:

"In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city, demonstrating that the Mormons are essential to understanding American history writ large. Using newly accessible sources, Park recreates the Mormons' 1839 flight from Missouri to Illinois. There, under the charismatic leadership of Joseph Smith, they founded Nauvoo, which shimmered briefly-but Smith's challenge to democratic traditions, as well as his new doctrine of polygamy, would bring about its fall. His wife Emma, rarely written about, opposed him, but the greater threat came from without: in 1844, a mob murdered Joseph, precipitating the Mormon trek to Utah. Throughout this chronicle, Park shows that far from being outsiders, the Mormons were representative of their era in their distrust of democracy and their attempt to forge a sovereign society of their own"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Soil

Seeds

Roots

Trunk

Branches

Fruit

Harvest

Legacies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-319) and index.

ISBN:

9781631494864

1631494864

OCLC:

1102474615