| Description |
1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations, map |
|
text txt rdacontent |
|
computer c rdamedia |
|
online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003 |
| Description |
data file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The establishment of the sugar industry in Utah and Idaho, 1851-1907 -- Before the Hardwick Committee of the House of Representatives -- National sugar policies and the First World War -- Political and legal troubles in the aftermath of the First World War -- Restraint of trade : Federal Trade Commission v. Utah-Idaho Sugar -- Conclusion. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
"One famous target of Progressive Era attempts to rein in monopolistic big business was the eastern Sugar Trust. Less known is how federal regulators also tried to break monopoly control over beet sugar in the West by going after the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, a business supported and controlled by the Latter-day Saints church and run by Mormon authorities. As sugar beet agriculture boomed, the Mormon church's involvement led directly to monopolistic practices by Utah-Idaho Sugar and to federal investigations. Church leaders encouraged members, a majority population in much of the intermountain West, to patronize the company exclusively, as suppliers and consumers. As early as 1890, Mormon church president Wilford Woodruff had called missionaries to raise money for the fledgling company and asserted divine inspiration for church support. Utah-Idaho bridged the cooperative, theocratic, self-sufficient economic model of nineteenth-century Mormonism and the integration of the Mormon West into the national market economy. Religion, Politics, and Sugar shows, through the example of an important western business, how national commercial, political, and legal forces in the early twentieth century came west and, more specifically, how they affected the important role the Mormon church played in economic affairs in the region."--Publisher's abstract |
| Subject |
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.
|
|
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Finance.
|
|
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Political activity.
|
|
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
|
|
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
|
|
Beet sugar industry -- United States -- History.
|
|
Sugar trade -- Government policy -- United States.
|
|
Sucre de betterave -- Industrie -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
|
|
Sucre -- Industrie -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis.
|
|
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
|
|
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History.
|
|
HISTORY -- General.
|
|
Beet sugar industry
|
|
Finance
|
|
Political participation
|
|
Sugar trade -- Government policy
|
|
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Godfrey, Matthew C. Religion, politics, and sugar. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006036737 |
| ISBN |
9780874215489 (electronic bk.) |
|
087421548X (electronic bk.) |
|
9780874216585 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
|
0874216583 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000051407910 |
|
AU@ 000058146702 |
|
AU@ 000062428950 |
|
DEBBG BV044118186 |
|
DEBSZ 396143539 |
|
DEBSZ 484690922 |
|
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999902886105765 |
|
GBVCP 1008652180 |
|
NZ1 14240178 |
|
