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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464410703321

Autore

Talbot Christine

Titolo

A foreign kingdom : Mormons and polygamy in American political culture, 1852-1890 / / Christine Talbot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Chicago : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-252-09535-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

289.37309034

Soggetti

Mormon Church - History - 19th century

Polygamy - Religious aspects - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores "the Mormon question," the division between public/private spheres, and the ways that plural marriage was received by the American public. The author argues that the conflict over plural marriage was as much about conceptions of "Americanness" as it was about the practice of plural marriage itself.