More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 305pp. Inscribed by author to Todd Compton (his scattered markings are found throughout the book). "Todd, Thanks for your fine example of Mormon scholarship. With all best wishes, Kathy, Kathryn M. Daynes."
More Wives Than One offers an in-depth look at the long-term interaction between belief and the practice of polygamy, or plural marriage, among the Latter-day Saints. Focusing on the small community of Manti, Utah, Kathryn M. Daynes provides an intimate view of how Mormon doctrine and Utah laws on marriage and divorce were applied in people's lives.
"Kathryn Daynes has combined meticulous research into the lives of families in Manti, Utah, with a superb sense of the interaction between law and religion. This book is a multi-faceted jewel, illuminating the clashes of doctrine and legislation in nineteenth-century Utah, and the meaning that such clashes had in the lives of individuals. No prior book on polygamy has given us such a rich and thoughtful account of how the Mormon marriage system affected all of society, as well as those who lived the principle."--Sarah Barringer Gordon, author of The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America. Condition: Very good. Item #8282
ISBN: 0252026810
Price: $35.00