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..
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2018
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Economic Historian
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1978
- Field Date
- not applicable
- Coverage Date
- 1847-1900
- Coverage Place
- Utah, United States
- Notes
- Leonard J. Arrington
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSH
- Mormons