University Of Utah Press: 82 books
A Frontier Life
Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies
Frontiersman, colonizer, missionary to the Indians, and explorer of the American West, Jacob Hamblin has long been one of the most enigmatic figures in Mormon history. In this defining biography, Todd Compton examines and disentangles many...
Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma
Islamic and Jewish Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Utah Series in Middle East Studies
The issue of religious authority has long fascinated and ignited scholars across a range of disciplines: history, anthropology, the sociology of religion, and political science. Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma juxtaposes religious leadership in...
Joseph’s Temples
The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
The apparent parallels between Mormon ritual and doctrine and those of Freemasonry have long been recognized. That Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and other early church leaders were, at least for a time, Masons, is common knowledge. Yet while early historians of the LDS Church openly acknowledged this...
Emmeline B. Wells
An Intimate History
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Emmeline B. Wells was the most noted Utah Mormon woman of her time. Lauded nationally for her energetic support of the women’s rights movement of the nineteenth century, she was a self-made woman who channeled her lifelong sense of destiny into ambitious altruism. Her public acclaim and activism...
Making Lamanites
Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies
From 1947 to 2000, some 50,000 Native American children left the reservations to live with Mormon foster families. While some dropped out of the Indian Student Placement Program (ISPP), for others the months spent living with LDS families...
Turkey's July 15th Coup
What Happened and Why
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Utah Series in Middle East Studies
On July 15, 2016, a faction of the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The Turkish government blamed the unsuccessful coup attempt on Gülenists, adherents of an Islamist movement led by Fethullah Gülen....
by Matthew L. Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Mormonism in Britain began in the late 1830s with the arrival of American missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Not long afterward, thousands of British converts emigrated to Utah and became a kind of lifeblood for the early Mormon Church. The English North West, where...
Saints Observed
Studies of Mormon Village Life, 1850-2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The most complete overview and assessment of Mormon village studies available, this volume extends the canon twofold. First, it presents a rich composite view of nineteenth-century Mormon life in the West as seen by qualified observers who did not just pass through but stopped and studied. Second,...
Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail
The Biology of Three American Tragedies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
During the winter of 1846–1847, members of the Donner Party found themselves stuck in the snows of the Sierra Nevada on their journey to California, losing many in their group to severe cold and starvation. Those who survived did so by cannibalizing their dead comrades. Today the Donner Party may...
Alma Richards
Olympian
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Alma Richards, as an unsung high school student, surprisingly set an Olympic record for the high jump in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. He was the only native Utahn and member of the LDS church to win an Olympic gold medal in the twentieth century. After a stellar collegiate track career that saw him...
The Sovietization of Azerbaijan
The South Caucasus in the Triangle of Russia, Turkey, and Iran, 1920–1922
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
Utah Series in Middle East Studies
World War I and the fall of tsarist Russia brought brief independence to Azerbaijan, but by 1920 the Bolshevik revolution pushed south with the twofold purpose of accessing the oil-rich fields near Baku on the Caspian Sea and spreading communism into the...
Cass Hite
The Life of an Old Prospector
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Cass Hite was a well-known prospector in the Glen Canyon area of southern Utah. He lived as a recluse yet knew most of the river runners, trekkers, cowboys, and Native Americans that passed through the region. He often wrote to newspapers and was in turn sought out...
Field Seasons
Reflections on Career Paths and Research in American Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
In Field Seasons, Anna Marie Prentiss chronicles her experiences as an archaeologist, providing an insider’s look at the diverse cultures, personal agendas, and career pathways associated with American archaeology since the late twentieth century. As the narrative moves from her academic training...
Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp
A Nisei Youth Behind A World War II Fence
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Lily Nakai and her family lived in southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At age ten, after believing that her family was simply going on a “camping trip,” she found herself living in a tar-papered barrack, nightly gazing...