|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910821741303321 |
|
|
Autore |
Gordon Sarah Barringer <1955-> |
|
|
Titolo |
The Mormon question : polygamy and constitutional conflict in nineteenth-century America / / Sarah Barringer Gordon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
979-88-908707-4-2 |
0-8078-7526-0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (352 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Freedom of religion - United States - History |
Church and state - United States - History |
Polygamy - Utah - History |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p.[297]-321) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part One; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Part Two; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
From 1852, until the Mormon Church's decision to abandon the practice in 1890, the battle over polygamy redefined religious liberty in America. This book discusses the "Mormon question" and its legacy in constitutional law and political theory. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|