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Dirkmaat, Gerrit John

Safely "Beyond the Limits of the United States": The Mormon Expulsion and US Expansion

Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of US Expansion

Lawrence, Kansas

University Press of Kansas

2019

This chapter examines the relations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the United States, focusing on their quest for refuge outside the borders of the nation. "The Mormons' alienation from the United States demonstrates both the zealous nature of the fervency in their religious beliefs and the limits of American identity and nationalism in the face of unmitigated persecution and unrelenting disregard for the rights of their singular and radical minority religious group. Not all who went out from under the eagle's wings were happy when that shadow again rested upon them. US expansion frustrated Mormon dreams and desires in the nineteenth century rather than fulfilling them." [Author]

U.S. government, relations with
U.S. government, relations with, 19th century
Nationalism
Expansionism

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