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Charles Redd Center Phi Alpha Theta Book Award for the Best Book on the American West 2018 Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book Award from the Utah State Historical Society 2018 Best First Book Award from the Mormon History Association Newly created territories in antebellum America were designed to be extensions of national sovereignty and jurisdiction. Utah Territory, however, was a deeply contested space in which a cohesive settler group—the Mormons—sought to establish their own “popular sovereignty,” raising the question of who possessed and could exercise governing, legal, social, and even cultural power in a newly acquired territory. In Unpopular Sovereignty, Brent M. Rogers invo...
In war, here be dragons. First Magus Brent Rogers has just been transferred from Fort Leavenworth to Afghanistan. His mission: to find out how and why a seemingly indestructible dragon died on an alleged suicide mission. Brent finds out that even dragons have secrets — and those secrets, if known, can kill them. Will Brent be like all the other wizards, and work for the Army, or will he keep the secrets of the dragons? His success — and maybe even his life — could depend on his decision. An expanded and updated edition by the original author!
Newly created territories in antebellum America were designed to be extensions of national sovereignty and jurisdiction. Utah Territory, however, was a deeply contested space in which a cohesive settler group the Mormons sought to establish their own popular sovereignty, raising the question of who possessed and could exercise governing, legal, social, and even cultural power in a newly acquired territory. In "Unpopular Sovereignty," Brent M. Rogers invokes the case of popular sovereignty in Utah as an important contrast to the better-known slavery question in Kansas. Rogers examines the complex relationship between sovereignty and territory along three main lines of inquiry: the implementat...
Brian Sanderson feels his country is moving in the wrong direction. An unbridled greed, a political system corrupted by money, and a growing wealth gap threaten the democracy Americans have died to secure and protect. One Man's Mission examines the long-term effects of FDR's New Deal and Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economics in a way that contrasts the impact on middle-class America. It analyzes our current political system in America, asking the question, Have we become an oligarchy? One Man's Mission is a story of compassion and commitment by one man dedicating his life to bringing back the America that has been lost.
Index of characters, teams and groups, families, planets, and extraterrestrial races of the DC superhero universe.