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Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory - Couverture rigide

Rogers, Brent M.

 
9780803276772: Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 080327677X ISBN 13 : 9780803276772
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2017

Synopsis

Charles Redd Center Phi Alpha Theta Book Award for the Best Book on the American West
2018 Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book Award from the Utah State Historical Society
2018 Best First Book Award from the Mormon History Association

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.

In Unpopular Sovereignty, Brent M. Rogers invokes the case of popular sovereignty in Utah as an important contrast to the better-known slavery question in Kansas. Rogers examines the complex relationship between sovereignty and territory along three main lines of inquiry: the implementation of a republican form of government, the administration of Indian policy and Native American affairs, and gender and familial relations--all of which played an important role in the national perception of the Mormons' ability to self-govern. Utah's status as a federal territory drew it into larger conversations about popular sovereignty and the expansion of federal power in the West. Ultimately, Rogers argues, managing sovereignty in Utah proved to have explosive and far-reaching consequences for the nation as a whole as it teetered on the brink of disunion and civil war.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
080327677X
ISBN 13 
9780803276772
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
402
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Personne responsable
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