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Kingdom on the Mississippi revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon history

1996; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 34; Issue: 02 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.34-1144

1943-5975

Archaeology and Natural History

Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited is a welcome and important compilation of fourteen of the best articles on Nauvoo, Illinois, published between 1960 and 1992 by various scholars with differing perspectives and interpretations.The authors-older, yovmger.Mormon, Reorganization, and non-Mormon-write on political, social, economic, religious, and cultural issues.Their styles vary from faithful and partisan history to the most objective.The literature on Mormon history is vast, and even that writing devoted only to Nauvoo is voluminous, so the editors had to be exceptionally selective.According to their introduction, they had three criteria: "the essays had to be of importance to the various historical stages of Mormon Nauvoo; they had to reflect a perspective and emphasize a theme that was not duplicated by other essays in the volume; and they had to be thorough, well supported, influential, and clearly written" (13).The topics range from Ron Esplin's study of the overall significance of Nauvoo, Marshall Hamilton's essay on the violent relations between Mormons and non-Mormons in Illinois, and James L. Kimball Jr.'s work on the Nauvoo Charter,