Item Detail
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English
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Western Expansion and the Politics of Federalism : Indians, Mormons, and Territorial Statehood, 1878-1887
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Suffragists in an Imperial Age : U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929
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New York
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Oxford University Press
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57-86
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"But even if the arguments for and against woman suffrage were familiar, the national discussion of Indian citizenship, Mormon polygamy, and Washington statehood also established that in the context of expanding national borders suffrage questions in the territories were always national issues. . . . the expanding borders had the potential to nationalize the suffrage question." [From author's conclusion]