Religion, politics, and sugar : the Mormon Church, the federal government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Godfrey, Matthew C. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press c2007.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Life Writings Frontier Women
Subjects:
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Finance.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Political activity.
Beet sugar industry > United States > History.
Sugar trade > Government policy > United States.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432629806719
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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