TY - BOOK AU - Talbot,Christine TI - A foreign kingdom: Mormons and polygamy in American political culture, 1852-1890 SN - 9780252095351 AV - BX8643 .F674 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Controversial literature KW - History and criticism KW - Polygamy KW - Religious aspects KW - Mormon Church KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; "That these things might come forth" : early Mormonism and the American Republic --; "We shall then live together as one great family" : Mormonism and the public/private divide --; "More the companion and much less the subordinate" : polygamy and Mormon woman's citizenship --; "The utter destruction of the home circle" : polygamy and the perversion of the private sphere --; "They can not exist in contact with republican institutions" : consent, contract, and citizenship under "polygamic theocracy" --; "The foulest ulcer on the body of our nation" : race, class, and contagion in anti-Mormon literature --; "Suffer a surrender --; ? no, never!" : the end of plural marriage; 2; b N2 - Explores "the Mormon question," the division between public/private spheres, and the ways that plural marriage was received by the American public. The author argues that the conflict over plural marriage was as much about conceptions of "Americanness" as it was about the practice of plural marriage itself UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=662120&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -