Terrible Revolution: Latter-Day Saints and the American Apocalypse

by Christopher James Blythe

Book Overview

The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth century by the assassination of Mormon leaders, the Saints' exile from Missouri and Illinois, the military occupation of the Utah territory, and the national crusade against those who practiced plural marriage. Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints looked forward to apocalyptic events that would unseat corrupt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197695159
• ISBN13: 9780197695159
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.0"