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

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Godfrey, Matthew C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2007.
©2007
Subjects:
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Finance.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Political activity.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
Beet sugar industry > United States > History.
Sugar trade > Government policy > United States.
Sucre de betterave > Industrie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Sucre > Industrie > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Corporate & Business History.
HISTORY > General.
Beet sugar industry
Finance
Political participation
Sugar trade > Government policy
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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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