Unpopular Sovereignty

Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory

Brent M. Rogers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

402 Seiten

2017
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-9585-8 (ISBN)

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Invokes the case of popular sovereignty in Utah as an important contrast to the better-known slavery question in Kansas. Brent M. Rogers examines the complex relationship between sovereignty and territory along three main lines of inquiry: the implementation of a republican form of government, the administration of Indian policy and Native American affairs, and gender and familial relations.

Charles Redd Center Phi Alpha Theta Book Award for the Best Book on the American West
2018 Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book Award from the Utah State Historical Society
2018 Best First Book Award from the Mormon History Association

Newly created territories in antebellum America were designed to be extensions of national sovereignty and jurisdiction. Utah Territory, however, was a deeply contested space in which a cohesive settler group-the Mormons-sought to establish their own “popular sovereignty,” raising the question of who possessed and could exercise governing, legal, social, and even cultural power in a newly acquired territory.

In Unpopular Sovereignty, Brent M. Rogers invokes the case of popular sovereignty in Utah as an important contrast to the better-known slavery question in Kansas. Rogers examines the complex relationship between sovereignty and territory along three main lines of inquiry: the implementation of a republican form of government, the administration of Indian policy and Native American affairs, and gender and familial relations-all of which played an important role in the national perception of the Mormons’ ability to self-govern. Utah’s status as a federal territory drew it into larger conversations about popular sovereignty and the expansion of federal power in the West. Ultimately, Rogers argues, managing sovereignty in Utah proved to have explosive and far-reaching consequences for the nation as a whole as it teetered on the brink of disunion and civil war.

Brent M. Rogers is a historian and documentary editor for the Joseph Smith Papers. He is also an instructor of history and religious education at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake Center.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Imperium in Imperio: Sovereignty and the American Territorial

2. Intimate Contact: Gender, Plural Marriage, and the U.S. Army in Utah Territory, 1854-1856

3. Missionaries to the Indians: Mormon and Federal Indian Policies

4. Confronting the "Twin Relics of Barbarism": The Mormon Question, the Buchanan Administration, and the Limits of Popular Sovereignty

5. The Utah War and the Westward March of Federal Sovereignty, 1857-1858

6. The U.S. Army and the Symbolic Conquering of Mormon Sovereignty

7. To 1862: The Codification of Federal Authority and the End of Popular Sovereignty in the Western Territories

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2017
Zusatzinfo	17 images, 1 map
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8032-9585-5 / 0803295855
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-9585-8 / 9780803295858
Zustand	Neuware