Religion, Politics, and Sugar

Religion, Politics, and SugarOne 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 by the Latter day Saints church and run by Mormon authorities. As sugar beet agriculture boomed, the Mormon churchs involvement led directly to monopolistic

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In the Greco-Roman catacombs of Alexandria

a day of spiritual empowerment

Using cultural nationalism as a tool for understanding Slavophile thinking

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to experience food insecurity underpinned by low crop productivity

under the auspices of the Ministry of Antiquities and directed by Elena Pischikova

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Bradley Lane’s Mizora (1890) and Elizabeth Corbett’s New Amazonia (1889)

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Murphey covers a wide range of sources and examples