Book
Great Basin kingdom: an economic history of the Latter-day Saints 1830-1900
University of Nebraska Press • Lincoln • Published In 1966 • Pages:
By: Arrington, Leonard J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
TThis history of Mormon economic policies and institutions as they developed and changed from 1830 to1900 focuses on the Church as a central planning agency in the development of the Great Basin region. Among the topics covered are: Church immigration policies; colonization; the role of the Church in developing manufacturing, agriculture, and transportation; Mormon communitarianism; and the economic interrelationships between Mormons and non-Mormons. The author argues that Church policies developed out of the nineteenth century communitarian movement and were particularly well-suited to the development of the Great Basin region. The unique characteristics of the Mormon economy essentially ended at the close of the nineteenth century as the Mormons were absorbed into the United States capitalist system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Tillage
- Mining and quarrying
- Cooperative organization
- Railways
- Provinces
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Religious denominations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mormons
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economic Historian
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1847-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Leonard J. Arrington
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mormons