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Building Zion: The Material World of Mormon Settlement

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Description for Building Zion: The Material World of Mormon Settlement Paperback. Series: Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, 215 black & white illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMX; HBJK; HRCC99. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1134.

For Mormons, the second coming of Christ and the subsequent millennium will arrive only when the earth has been perfected through the building of a model world called Zion. Throughout the nineteenth century the Latter-day Saints followed this vision, creating a material world—first in Missouri and Illinois but most importantly and permanently in Utah and surrounding western states—that serves as a foundation for understanding their concept of an ideal universe.

Building Zion is, in essence, the biography of the cultural landscape of western LDS settlements. Through the physical forms Zion assumed, it tells the life story of a set of Mormon ... Read more

Building Zion demonstrates how this cultural landscape draws its singularity from a unique blending of sacred and secular spaces, a division that characterized the Mormon material world in the late nineteenth century and continues to do so today.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Series
Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816689576
SKU
V9780816689576
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99-1

About Thomas Carter
Thomas Carter is emeritus professor of architectural history in the University of Utah’s College of Architecture and Planning. He is coauthor of Utah’s Historic Architecture, 1847–1940: A Guide and Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes.

Reviews for Building Zion: The Material World of Mormon Settlement
“Building Zion surpasses all earlier studies of the Mormon cultural landscape. Through his astute readings of the buildings and towns of Utah’s Sanpete Valley, Thomas Carter offers a persuasive new interpretation of the Latter-Day Saints’ formative years. This book is required reading to understand how the built environment contributes to historical understanding."—Dell Upton, UCLA "An interesting take on the history ... Read more

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