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English
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Polygamy : An Early American History
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New Haven, CT
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Yale University Press
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"Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy's surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, indigenous communities, and segments of the American nation. Polygamy-- as well as the fight against it-- illuminates many touchstones of American history : the Pueblo Revolt and other uprisings against the Spanish; Catholic missions in New France; New England settlements and King Philip's War; the entrenchment of African slavery in the Chesapeake; the Atlantic Enlightenment; the American Revolution; missions and settlements in the West; and the rise of Mormonism. Pearsall expertly opens up broader questions about monogamy's emergence as the only marital option, tracing the impact of colonial events on property, theology, feminism, imperialism, and the regulation of sexuality. She shows that heterosexual monogamy was never the only model of marriage in North America." [Abstract]
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A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, Volume 3, 1853-57
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
A Mormon Mother : An Autobiography of Annie Clark Tanner
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Defence of Polygamy, by a Lady in Utah : In a Letter to Her Sister in New Hampshire
Early Mormon Pamphleteering
Early Mormon Polygamy Defenses
Effects of Polygamy on Mormon Women
Female Life Among the Mormons ; A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience
Male Life Among the Mormons ; Or, the Husband in Utah ; Detailing Sights and Scenes Among the Mormons; With Remarks on Their Moral and Social Economy
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Polygamy : A History
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy : The introduction and implementation of the principle, 1830-1853
The Development of Early Latter-day Saint Marriage Rites, 1831-53
The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Marriage
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormons at Home : With some Incidents of Travel from Missouri to California, 1852-3
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Polygamous Wives Writing Club : From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy