Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory Contributor(s): Rogers, Brent M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 080327677X ISBN-13: 9780803276772 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - History | United States - 19th Century - Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon) |
Dewey: 979.202 |
LCCN: 2016012916 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.63 lbs) 402 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Mormonism/Lds - Geographic Orientation - Utah - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Newly created territories in antebellum America were designed to be extensions of national sovereignty and jurisdiction. Utah Territory, however, was a deeply contested space in which a cohesive settler group--the Mormons--sought to establish their own "popular sovereignty," raising the question of who possessed and could exercise governing, legal, social, and even cultural power in a newly acquired territory. Brent M. Rogers is a historian and documentary editor for the Joseph Smith Papers. He is also an instructor of history and religious education at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake Center. |