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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Godfrey, Matthew C. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press c2007.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Life Writings Frontier Women
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The establishment of the sugar industry in Utah and Idaho, 1851-1907
  • Before the Hardwick Committee of the House of Representatives
  • National sugar policies and the First World War
  • Political and legal troubles in the aftermath of the First World War
  • Restraint of trade : Federal Trade Commission v. Utah-Idaho Sugar
  • Conclusion.