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Contingent citizens : shifting perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American political culture / edited by Spencer W. McBride, Brent M. Rogers, and Keith A. Erekson.
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Political activity--History.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Public opinion--History.
- Latter Day Saints--Political activity--History.
- Latter Day Saints.
- Latter Day Saints--Public opinion--History.
- Political culture--United States--History.
- Political culture.
- Public opinion.
- History.
- Latter Day Saints--Political activity.
- Political participation.
- United States.
- Public opinion--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction : not exceptional, typical, or Americanized : the Latter-day Saint experience with American politics / by Keith A. Erekson
- "Some little necromancy" : politics, religion, and the Mormons, 1829-1838 / Adam Jortner
- "Many think this Is a hoax" : the newspaper response to Joseph Smith's 1844 presidential campaign / Spencer W. McBride
- The perils of a Protestant democracy : Mormon and Catholic conceptions of democratic rule in the 1840s / Benjamin E. Park
- "The woman's movement has discovered a new enemy
- the Mormon Church" : the Equal Rights Amendment missionary program in Mormon Utah / Natalie K. Rose
- "The way of the transgressor Is hard" : the Black Hawk and Mormon wars in the construction of Illinois political culture, 1832-1846 / Amy S. Greenberg
- "Like a swarm of locusts" : perceptions of Mormon geopolitical power in a non-U.S. West, 1844-1848 / Thomas Richards Jr.
- "In the style of an independent sovereign": mid-nineteenth-century Mormon martial law proclamations in American political culture / Brent M. Rogers
- Political perceptions of Mormon polygamy and the struggle for Utah statehood, 1847-1896 / Stephen E. Smith
- A snake in the sugar : magazines, the Hardwick Committee, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1910-1911 / Matthew C. Godfrey
- "Rather than recognize this wretched imposture" : Edward Everett, rational religion, and the territory of Utah/Deseret / Matthew Mason
- Ambiguous allegiances, divided sovereignty : the Mormon experience in context / Rachel St. John
- Mormons at mid-century : "crushed politically, curtailed economically," but winning "universal respect for their devotion and achievements" / J.B. Haws
- The historic conflicts of our time : Ezra Taft Benson and national media representations of late twentieth-century Mormonism / Patrick Q. Mason.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2020).
- Contains:
- Jortner, Adam Some little necromancy.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Contingent citizens
- ISBN:
- 9781501716751
- 1501716751
- 9781501716744
- 1501716743
- Publisher Number:
- 40029937295
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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