A Surfeit of Surplus Art: The Early American Experience

1968 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
pp. 573
Author(s):  
M. C. Gillett ◽  
David H. Finnie

1942 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1136-1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
James T. Watkins

The relationship between the domestic political philosophy of a state and its reliability as a member of an organized world community is one of the more hotly debated issues in the present discussion of future international organization. On one side of the argument is the school of thought which holds that international organization can be safely erected only upon a basis of solidly democratic states. On the other side is the school which denies that there is any such close connection between the internal political organization of a state and its external relations. In support of their respective positions, the former school can cite the early American experience and the latter the early Swiss experience.


1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc A. Michelson ◽  
John S. Owen ◽  
Frank LaRussa ◽  
Pam Cumbie

1968 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 772
Author(s):  
Harry N. Howard ◽  
David H. Finnie

Author(s):  
Max Perry Mueller

The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this book argues, illuminates the role that religion played in forming the notion of three “original” American races—red, black, and white—for Mormons and others in the early American Republic. Recovering the voices of a handful of black and Native American Mormons who resolutely wrote themselves into the Mormon archive, this book threads together historical experience and Mormon scriptural interpretations. The Book of Mormon is key to understanding how early followers reflected but also departed from antebellum conceptions of race as biblically and biologically predetermined. Mormon theology and policy both challenged and reaffirmed the essentialist nature of the racialized American experience. The Book of Mormon presented its believers with a radical worldview, proclaiming that all schisms within the human family were anathematic to God’s design. That said, church founders were not racial egalitarians. They promoted whiteness as an aspirational racial identity that nonwhites could achieve through conversion to Mormonism. This book also shows how, on a broader level, scripture and history may become mutually constituted. For the Mormons, that process shaped a religious movement in perpetual tension between its racialist and universalist impulses during an era before the concept of race was secularized.


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