Date
5-2014
Department
History
Degree
Master of Arts (MA)
Chair
Samuel Smith
Keywords
Harmony, Rapp
Disciplines
American Studies | Cultural History | History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Tomney, James, "Divine Economy: George Rapp, the Harmony Society, and Jacksonian Democracy" (2014). Masters Theses. 322.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/322
Abstract
Divine Economy: George Rapp, the Harmony Society, and Jacksonian Democracy is a chronological exploration of the sucesses achieved, conflicts encountered, and eventual demise of George Rapp's Harmony Society. During its one-hundred year existence as it awaited the Second Coming of Christ, three successful agricultural and manufacturing towns were created by the Society out of the wilderness. Also explored is the impact Jacksonian Democracy had on George Rapp's Harmony Society during the 1824 to 1847 period, as is the contribution the Society made to American industrialization after George Rapp's death in 1847.
