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Spring, 2005
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Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region. By Ethan R. Yorgason. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xii + 261 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, index. $32.50.)
      In her stimulating discussion of the place of Mormonism in the historiography of the American West, Jan Shipps charged modern scholars with circling around the topic as if it were the hole in a doughnut. These New Western historians, privileging process as their frame of reference, tend to identify Mormon culture as place, and thus beyond the purview of their investigation. As a practitioner of regional geography, Ethan Yorgason has a firm sense of place, yet as a historian au courant with contemporary theory he also knows a thing or two about process. Such interdisciplinary expertise has enabled Yorgason to broker a marriage of place and process that is truly impressive. . . .
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