{"product_id":"unpopular-sovereignty-9780803295858","title":"Unpopular Sovereignty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvokes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An essential part of the library of anyone interested in the American West or Utah and the Mormons.\"—Richard H. Jackson, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Scholar and history buff alike will enjoy Brent M. Rogers' \u003ci\u003eUnpopular Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e . . . a carefully researched and well-written history of the decades-long struggle to bring Territorial Utah to heel.\"—Rod Miller, \u003ci\u003eTrueWest Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This excellent interpretation of the causes and results of the Mormon War is presented within the larger context of national events, which, in turn, led to the American Civil War.\"—M. L. Tate, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnpopular Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e is a noteworthy addition to both U.S. and Mormon historiography, and will be the vital text on early Utah Territory’s important place in the American Union for years to come.\"—Thomas Richards, \u003ci\u003eCivil War Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rogers's great strength in this thoroughly researched and balanced account is teasing out and analyzing the multifaceted opinions from the original documents to persuasively argue that Utah Territory emerged as a key battleground and hotbed of antebellum debate over popular sovereignty.\"—Jay H. Buckley, \u003ci\u003eBYU Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brent M. Rogers has delivered a good book. It is deeply researched, well written, and carefully argued. Best of all, it is constructively provocative and engaging. . . . This is a fine work that will be useful to students of the American West, the run-up to the Civil War, U.S. expansion, U.S. politics, and the development of the American state.\"—Todd M. Kerstetter, \u003ci\u003ePacific Northwest Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Rogers's fine study of antebellum tensions regarding the Mormon political and cultural experiment in the Great Basin.\"—William Deverell, \u003ci\u003eMormon Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brent Rogers skillfully places the Utah experience at the fulcrum of America’s 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 \u003ci\u003eReligion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Balanced and extensively researched.”—Nicole Etcheson, author of \u003ci\u003eA Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eReopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ci\u003eImperium in Imperio\u003c\/i\u003e: Sovereignty and the American Territorial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Intimate Contact: Gender, Plural Marriage, and the U.S. Army in Utah Territory, 1854-1856\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Missionaries to the Indians: Mormon and Federal Indian Policies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Confronting the \"Twin Relics of Barbarism\": The Mormon Question, the Buchanan Administration, and the Limits of Popular Sovereignty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Utah War and the Westward March of Federal Sovereignty, 1857-1858\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. The U.S. Army and the Symbolic Conquering of Mormon Sovereignty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. To 1862: The Codification of Federal Authority and the End of Popular Sovereignty in the Western Territories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405301064023,"sku":"9780803295858","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803295858.jpg?v=1730489621","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unpopular-sovereignty-9780803295858","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}