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Contingent Citizens features fourteen essays that track changes in
the ways Americans have perceived the Latter-day Saints since the
1830s. From presidential politics, to political violence, to the
definition of marriage, to the meaning of sexual equality-the
editors and contributors place Mormons in larger American histories
of territorial expansion, religious mission, Constitutional
interpretation, and state formation. These essays also show that
the political support of the Latter-day Saints has proven, at
critical junctures, valuable to other political groups. The
willingness of Americans to accept Latter-day Saints as full
participants in the United States political system has ranged over
time and been impelled by political expediency, granting Mormons in
the United States an ambiguous status, contingent on changing
political needs and perceptions. Contributors: Matthew C. Godfrey,
Church History Library; Amy S. Greenberg, Penn State University; J.
B. Haws, Brigham Young University; Adam Jortner, Auburn University;
Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University; Patrick Q. Mason,
Claremont Graduate University; Benjamin E. Park, Sam Houston State
University; Thomas Richards, Jr., Springside Chestnut Hill Academy;
Natalie Rose, Michigan State University; Stephen Eliot Smith,
University of Otago; Rachel St. John, University of California
Davis
Contingent Citizens features fourteen essays that track changes in
the ways Americans have perceived the Latter-day Saints since the
1830s. From presidential politics, to political violence, to the
definition of marriage, to the meaning of sexual equality-the
editors and contributors place Mormons in larger American histories
of territorial expansion, religious mission, Constitutional
interpretation, and state formation. These essays also show that
the political support of the Latter-day Saints has proven, at
critical junctures, valuable to other political groups. The
willingness of Americans to accept Latter-day Saints as full
participants in the United States political system has ranged over
time and been impelled by political expediency, granting Mormons in
the United States an ambiguous status, contingent on changing
political needs and perceptions. Contributors: Matthew C. Godfrey,
Church History Library; Amy S. Greenberg, Penn State University; J.
B. Haws, Brigham Young University; Adam Jortner, Auburn University;
Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University; Patrick Q. Mason,
Claremont Graduate University; Benjamin E. Park, Sam Houston State
University; Thomas Richards, Jr., Springside Chestnut Hill Academy;
Natalie Rose, Michigan State University; Stephen Eliot Smith,
University of Otago; Rachel St. John, University of California
Davis
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.
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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