Religion, politics, and sugar the Mormon Church, the federal government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921
One famous target of Progressive Era attempts to rein in monopolistic big business was the eastern Sugar Trust. Less known is how federal regulators also tried to break monopoly control over beet sugar in the West by going after the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, a business supported and controlled by th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Life Writings Frontier Women
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432629806719 |
| Summary: | One famous target of Progressive Era attempts to rein in monopolistic big business was the eastern Sugar Trust. Less known is how federal regulators also tried to break monopoly control over beet sugar in the West by going after the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, a business supported and controlled by the Latter-day Saints church and run by Mormon authorities. As sugar beet agriculture boomed, the Mormon church's involvement led directly to monopolistic practices by Utah-Idaho Sugar and to federal investigations. Church leaders encouraged members, a majority population in much of the intermoun |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780874215489 |
