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Unpopular Sovereignty - Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory (Hardcover)
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Unpopular Sovereignty - Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory (Hardcover)
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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.
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