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Author Talbot, Christine.

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

Publication Info. Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "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.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9780252038082 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780252079573 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252095351 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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