Visions of Harmony: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Millenarianism

by Anne Taylor

This book tells the tale of a small town on the Wabash River that became the site of more than one attempt to bring about the millennium. In 1814 George Rapp, a religious leader from Wurttemberg, transferred a thousand of his followers to an uncleared site in a dense forest. The settlers called it Harmonie, and there they patiently awaited the Second Coming of the Lord. Ten years later Harmonie was sold to Robert Owen of New Lanark, who started to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192117939
• ISBN13: 9780192117939
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.