A foreign kingdom [electronic resource] : Mormons and polygamy in American political culture, 1852-1890 / Christine Talbot.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2013]. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN: - 9780252095351
- Mormon Church -- History -- 19th century
- Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History -- 19th century
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Controversial literature -- History and criticism
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History -- 19th century
- 289.3/7309034 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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