Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territor

Description: Unpopular Sovereignty by Brent M. Rogers 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Utahs 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. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents 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 Review "Brent Rogers skillfully places the Utah experience at the fulcrum of Americas growing sectional divide in the 1850s and offers important new insights into the deterioration of the Union. This book will force historians of the West to consider Utah Territory alongside Kansas Territory as a hotbed of national debate over popular sovereignty. Beyond that, it should prompt a recalibration of the national narrative to reflect the ways in which religion helped to define what it meant to be an American in the decade leading into the Civil War, sometimes just as much as race."—W. Paul Reeve, author of Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness "Balanced and extensively researched."—Nicole Etcheson, author of A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community "Popular sovereignty, an influential political doctrine in antebellum America, is generally linked to the question of slavery in the territories. But as Brent Rogers shows in this careful study, politicians, administrators, citizens, and soldiers also applied this concept to events and currents in Utah Territory, enriching our understanding of contradictions and inconsistencies in the relationship between the federal government and its western territories."—Brian Q. Cannon, director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University author of Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West Review Text "Brent Rogers skillfully places the Utah experience at the fulcrum of Americas growing sectional divide in the 1850s and offers important new insights into the deterioration of the Union. This book will force historians of the West to consider Utah Territory alongside Kansas Territory as a hotbed of national debate over popular sovereignty. Beyond that, it should prompt a recalibration of the national narrative to reflect the ways in which religion helped to define what it meant to be an American in the decade leading into the Civil War, sometimes just as much as race."--W. Paul Reeve, author of Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness "Balanced and extensively researched."--Nicole Etcheson, author of A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community "Popular sovereignty, an influential political doctrine in antebellum America, is generally linked to the question of slavery in the territories. But as Brent Rogers shows in this careful study, politicians, administrators, citizens, and soldiers also applied this concept to events and currents in Utah Territory, enriching our understanding of contradictions and inconsistencies in the relationship between the federal government and its western territories."--Brian Q. Cannon, director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University author of Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West Review Quote " Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory accomplishes a number of impressive feats. In the hands of a less-skilled scholar, these objectives might clash and unduly complicate a book and its narrative. Not so in historian Brent M. Rogerss fine study of antebellum tensions regarding the Mormon political and cultural experiment in the Great Basin."--William Deverell, Mormon Studies Review Details ISBN0803295855 Author Brent M. Rogers Short Title UNPOPULAR SOVEREIGNTY Publisher University of Nebraska Press Language English ISBN-10 0803295855 ISBN-13 9780803295858 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 979.202 Year 2017 Imprint University of Nebraska Press Subtitle Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory Place of Publication Lincoln Country of Publication United States Illustrations 17 images, 1 map Publication Date 2017-02-01 UK Release Date 2017-02-01 AU Release Date 2017-02-01 NZ Release Date 2017-02-01 US Release Date 2017-02-01 Illustrator Stephanie Fizer Coleman Translator David E. 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