A foreign kingdom : Mormons and polygamy in American political culture, 1852-1890 / Christine Talbot.
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TextPublisher: Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780252095351 (e-book)
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Controversial literature -- History and criticism
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History -- 19th century
- Mormon Church -- History -- 19th century
- Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History -- 19th century
- 289.37309034 23
- BX8643.P63 T35 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"That these things might come forth" : early Mormonism and the American Republic -- "We shall then live together as one great family" : Mormonism and the public/private divide -- "More the companion and much less the subordinate" : polygamy and Mormon woman's citizenship -- "The utter destruction of the home circle" : polygamy and the perversion of the private sphere -- "They can not exist in contact with republican institutions" : consent, contract, and citizenship under "polygamic theocracy" -- "The foulest ulcer on the body of our nation" : race, class, and contagion in anti-Mormon literature -- "Suffer a surrender--? no, never!" : the end of plural marriage.
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