A Foreign Kingdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Foreign Kingdom write by Christine Talbot. This book was released on 2013-12-30. A Foreign Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The years from 1852 to 1890 marked a controversial period in Mormonism, when the church's official embrace of polygamy put it at odds with wider American culture. In this study, Christine Talbot explores the controversial era, discussing how plural marriage generated decades of cultural and political conflict over competing definitions of legitimate marriage, family structure, and American identity. In particular, Talbot examines "the Mormon question" with attention to how it constructed ideas about American citizenship around the presumed separation of the public and private spheres. Contrary to the prevailing notion of man as political actor, woman as domestic keeper, and religious conscience as entirely private, Mormons enfranchised women and framed religious practice as a political act. The way Mormonism undermined the public/private divide led white, middle-class Americans to respond by attacking not just Mormon sexual and marital norms but also Mormons' very fitness as American citizens. Poised at the intersection of the history of the American West, Mormonism, and nineteenth-century culture and politics, this carefully researched exploration considers the ways in which Mormons and anti-Mormons both questioned and constructed ideas of the national body politic, citizenship, gender, the family, and American culture at large.
A Brief Account of Life in a Foreign Kingdom
A Brief Account of Life in a Foreign Kingdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief Account of Life in a Foreign Kingdom write by Adam Barkochba. This book was released on 1981. A Brief Account of Life in a Foreign Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom
Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom write by Carl Crow. This book was released on 2007. Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1940, this is Carl Crow’s entertaining autobiography, the story of his more than 25 years of adventures and success in Shanghai during the tumultuous early decades of the 20th century. This book is a tale of East meets West set in the wild and heady days of inter-war China. It is an account of how two cultures clashed, bickering over business deals and social norms as they tried to find a way to live with each other.
This Vast Southern Empire
This Vast Southern Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Vast Southern Empire write by Matthew Karp. This book was released on 2016-09-12. This Vast Southern Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Winner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Winner of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table Book Award Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation’s triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main levers of foreign policy inside an increasingly powerful American state. This Vast Southern Empire explores the international vision and strategic operations of these southerners at the commanding heights of American politics. “At the close of the Civil War, more than Southern independence and the bones of the dead lay amid the smoking ruins of the Confederacy. Also lost was the memory of the prewar decades, when Southern politicians and pro-slavery ambitions shaped the foreign policy of the United States in order to protect slavery at home and advance its interests abroad. With This Vast Southern Empire, Matthew Karp recovers that forgotten history and presents it in fascinating and often surprising detail.” —Fergus Bordewich, Wall Street Journal “Matthew Karp’s illuminating book This Vast Southern Empire shows that the South was interested not only in gaining new slave territory but also in promoting slavery throughout the Western Hemisphere.” —David S. Reynolds, New York Review of Books
Legalist Empire
Legalist Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legalist Empire write by Benjamin Allen Coates. This book was released on 2016. Legalist Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Legalist Empire' explores the intimate connections between international law and empire in the United States from 1898 to 1919.
