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1st ed.

Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2021

1 online resource (437 pages)

ISBN 9780821447383 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780821424469

New Approaches to Midwestern Studies

Print version: Simeone, James The Saints and the State Athens, OH : Ohio University Press,c2021 ISBN 9780821424469

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Settler Illinois as a Developing Democracy -- 1. Illinois in 1839: Land of Worth and Accommodation -- 2. Joseph Smith and the New Politics of Belief -- 3. Saints and Suckers in the Settler State -- 4. Nauvoo Prophecies in the Hancock Status Order -- 5. Performing Citizenship in the House of Power -- 6. Religious Toleration and Political Ideology in the Illinois Regime -- 7. Thomas Ford and the Politics of Civic Worth -- Conclusion: The Perils of Democratic Storytelling -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

James Simeone’s case study uncovers in the 1846 expulsion of Mormons from Illinois an important object lesson for American democracy today, revealing the impossibility of state neutrality in the face of entrenched group beliefs and segregated settlement..

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(OCoLC)1201695626