Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier write by Benjamin E. Park. This book was released on 2020-02-25. Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Best Book Award • Mormon History Association A brilliant young historian excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, uncovering a “grand, underappreciated saga in American history” (Wall Street Journal). In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the early Mormons built a religious utopia, establishing their own army and writing their own constitution. For those offenses and others—including the introduction of polygamy, which was bitterly opposed by Emma Smith, the iron-willed first wife of Joseph Smith—the surrounding population violently ejected the Mormons, sending them on their flight to Utah. Throughout his absorbing chronicle, Park shows how the Mormons of Nauvoo were representative of their era, and in doing so elevates Mormon history into the American mainstream.
Polygamy
Polygamy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polygamy write by Sarah M. S. Pearsall. This book was released on 2019-08-20. Polygamy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy's surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, indigenous communities, and segments of the American nation. Polygamy--as well as the fight against it--illuminates many touchstones of American history: the Pueblo Revolt and other uprisings against the Spanish; Catholic missions in New France; New England settlements and King Philip's War; the entrenchment of African slavery in the Chesapeake; the Atlantic Enlightenment; the American Revolution; missions and settlement in the West; and the rise of Mormonism. Pearsall expertly opens up broader questions about monogamy's emergence as the only marital option, tracing the impact of colonial events on property, theology, feminism, imperialism, and the regulation of sexuality. She shows that heterosexual monogamy was never the only model of marriage in North America.
Nauvoo
Nauvoo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nauvoo write by Glen M. Leonard. This book was released on 2002. Nauvoo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Mormon People
The Mormon People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mormon People write by Matthew Bowman. This book was released on 2012-01-24. The Mormon People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “From one of the brightest of the new generation of Mormon-studies scholars comes a crisp, engaging account of the religion’s history.”—The Wall Street Journal With Mormonism on the nation’s radar as never before, religious historian Matthew Bowman has written an essential book that pulls back the curtain on more than 180 years of Mormon history and doctrine. He recounts the church’s origins and explains how the Mormon vision has evolved—and with it the esteem in which Mormons have been held in the eyes of their countrymen. Admired on the one hand as hardworking paragons of family values, Mormons have also been derided as oddballs and persecuted as polygamists, heretics, and zealots. The place of Mormonism in public life continues to generate heated debate, yet the faith has never been more popular. One of the fastest-growing religions in the world, it retains an uneasy sense of its relationship with the main line of American culture. Mormons will surely play an even greater role in American civic life in the years ahead. The Mormon People comes as a vital addition to the corpus of American religious history—a frank and balanced demystification of a faith that remains a mystery for many. With a new afterword by the author. “Fascinating and fair-minded . . . a sweeping soup-to-nuts primer on Mormonism.”—The Boston Globe “A cogent, judicious, and important account of a faith that has been an important element in American history but remained surprisingly misunderstood.”—Michael Beschloss “A thorough, stimulating rendering of the Mormon past and present.”—Kirkus Reviews “[A] smart, lucid history.”—Tom Brokaw
Nightfall at Nauvoo
Nightfall at Nauvoo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nightfall at Nauvoo write by Samuel Woolley Taylor. This book was released on 1971. Nightfall at Nauvoo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
