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A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
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Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield, IL
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University of Illinois Press
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The years from 1852 to 1890 marked a controversial period in Mormonism, when the church's official embrace of polygamy put it at odds with wider American culture. In this study, Christine Talbot explores the controversial era, discussing how plural marriage generated decades of cultural and political conflict over competing definitions of legitimate marriage, family structure, and American identity.
In particular, Talbot examines "the Mormon question" with attention to how it constructed ideas about American citizenship around the presumed separation of the public and private spheres. Contrary to the prevailing notion of man as political actor, woman as domestic keeper, and religious conscience as entirely private, Mormons enfranchised women and framed religious practice as a political act. The way Mormonism undermined the public/private divide led white, middle-class Americans to respond by attacking not just Mormon sexual and marital norms but also Mormons' very fitness as American citizens. Poised at the intersection of the history of the American West, Mormonism, and nineteenth-century culture and politics, this carefully researched exploration considers the ways in which Mormons and anti-Mormons both questioned and constructed ideas of the national body politic, citizenship, gender, the family, and American culture at large. [Publisher's Website]
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Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Faithful History : Essays on Writing Mormon History
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General Smith's Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States
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Joseph Smith and World Government
Joseph Smith : Candidate for President of the United States
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Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
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Strangers in Paradox : Explorations in Mormon Theology
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The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Awesome Power of Sex : The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints : Its Priesthood, Organization, Doctrines, Ordinances and History
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The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The Council of Fifty and Its Members, 1844 to 1945
The Crusades against the Masons, Catholics, and Mormons : Separate Waves of a Common Current
The Danite Band of 1838
The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff
The Doctrinal Impact of the King Follett Discourse
The Economic Role of Pioneer Mormon Women
The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Marriage
The Essential Joseph Smith
The Finest of Fabrics : Mormon Women and the Silk Industry in Early Utah
The Fruits of Mormonism
The Gentile Comes to Utah : A Study in Religious and Social Conflict (1862-1890)
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The History of the Saints : Or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
The Incidence of Mormon Polygamy in 1880 : 'Dixie' versus Davis Stake
The Judicial Campaign against Polygamy and the Enduring Legal Questions
The King Follett Discourse : A Newly Amalgamated Text
The King Follett Discourse : Joseph Smith's Greatest Sermon in Historical Perspective
The Latter-Day Saint Experience in America
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The Legislative Antipolygamy Campaign
'The Liberty of Self-Degradation' : Polygamy, Woman Suffrage, and Consent in Nineteenth-Century America
The Life of Brigham Young
The Life of John Taylor, Third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Lion and the Lioness : Brigham Young and Eliza R. Snow
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Mormon Country : A Summer with the 'Latter-day Saints'
The Mormon Disfranchisements of 1882 to 1892
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834-1914 : Cartoons, Caricatures, and Illustrations
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Issue in Congress, 1872-1882, Drawing on the Experience of Territorial Delegate George Q. Cannon
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon People : Their Character and Traditions
The Mormon Practice of Plural Marriage : The Social Construction of Religious Identity and Commitment
The Mormon Puzzle ; and How to Solve It
The Mormon Quest for the Presidency
The Mormon Question, 1850-1865 : A Study in Politics and Public Opinion
The Mormon Question Enters National Politics, 1850-1856
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormon Reformation
The Mormon Reformation of 1856-1857 : The Rhetoric and the Reality
The Mormons and the Law : The Polygamy Cases
The Mormons at Home : With some Incidents of Travel from Missouri to California, 1852-3
The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
The Mormon-Suffrage Relationship : Personal and Political Quandaries
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The New Mormon History : Revisionist Essays on the Past
The 'New Translation' of the Bible, 1830-1833 : Doctrinal Development during the Kirtland Era
Theory and Practice of Church and State during the Brigham Young Era
The Persistence of Polygamy : Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormon Polygamy
The Physiological Aspects of Mormonism, and the Climatology, and Diseases of Utah and New Mexico
The Political Reconstruction of Utah Territory, 1866-1890
The Principle Revoked : A Closer Look at the Demise of Plural Marriage
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The Stenhouses and the Making of a Mormon Image
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
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The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
The Whore of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations : Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity
The Woman's Exponent : Forty-Two years of Speaking for Women
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The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
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Ultimate Taboos : Incest and Mormon Polygamy
Unpublished Revelations of the Prophets and Presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Utah and Its People
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Utah's Anti-Polygamy Society : 1878-1884
Utah's Historic Architecture, 1847-1940 : A Guide
Victorian Pornographic Imagery in Anti-Mormon Literature
Why We Practice Plural Marriage
Wilford Woodruff and the Mormon Reformation of 1855-57
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
Woman's Place in Brigham Young's World
Woman's Place is in the Constitution : The Struggle for Equal Rights in Utah in 1895
Woman Suffrage in Territorial Utah
Women and Authority : Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
Women, Family, and Utopia : Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society
Women of Principle : Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny
Women's Voices : An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
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