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Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
Ethan R. Yorgason
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Description for Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
Paperback. Charting the shift from radicalism to conservatism in the Mormon American West Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 Line Drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HRCC99. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
In this unique study, Ethan R. Yorgason examines the Mormon "culture region" of the American West, which in the late nineteenth century was characterized by sexual immorality, communalism, and anti-Americanism but is now marked by social conservatism. Foregrounding the concept of region, Yorgason traces the conformist-conservative trajectory that arose from intense moral and ideological clashes between Mormons and non-Mormons from 1880 to 1920. Looking through the lenses of regional geography, history, and cultural studies, Yorgason investigates shifting moral orders relating to gender authority, economic responsibility, and national loyalty, community, and home life. Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region charts how Mormons ... Read more
In this unique study, Ethan R. Yorgason examines the Mormon "culture region" of the American West, which in the late nineteenth century was characterized by sexual immorality, communalism, and anti-Americanism but is now marked by social conservatism. Foregrounding the concept of region, Yorgason traces the conformist-conservative trajectory that arose from intense moral and ideological clashes between Mormons and non-Mormons from 1880 to 1920. Looking through the lenses of regional geography, history, and cultural studies, Yorgason investigates shifting moral orders relating to gender authority, economic responsibility, and national loyalty, community, and home life. Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region charts how Mormons ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077715
SKU
V9780252077715
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About Ethan R. Yorgason
Ethan R. Yorgason is an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Brigham Young University, Hawai'i.
Reviews for Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
Winner of the Best First Book Award, the Mormon History Association, 2004. "Offers a fresh, nuanced interpretation of how yesterday's polygamous, communal, even anti-American Mormon radicals became modern-day social and political conservatives in the American West."
Professional Geographer "Chief among [this book's] contributions are . . . a number of stimulating and novel insights about the causes and implications ... Read more
Professional Geographer "Chief among [this book's] contributions are . . . a number of stimulating and novel insights about the causes and implications ... Read more