The Fraternal Atlantic, 1770-1930: Race, Revolution, and Transnationalism in the Worlds of Freemasonry

ISBN-13: 9780367654061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 156 str.

Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs; Jan C. Jansen; Elizabeth Mancke

Opis

This book examines Freemasonry in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Drawing on fresh empirical evidence, the chapters position fraternalism as a critical component of Atlantic history.

Spis treści

The fraternal Atlantic: An introduction  Part I: Revolutions  1. From a cosmopolitan fraternity to an imperialist institution: Freemasonry in British North America in the 1780s–1790s  2. Brothers in exile: Masonic lodges and the refugees of the Haitian Revolution, 1790s–1820  Part II: Race  3. A secret brotherhood? The question of black Freemasonry before and after the Haitian Revolution  4. "Perfectly proper and conciliating": Jean-Pierre Boyer, freemasonry, and the revolutionary Atlantic in eastern Connecticut, 1800–1801  Part III: Tensions  5. Atlantic antagonism: Revolution and race in German-American Masonic relations, 1848–1861  6. The great divide: Transatlantic brothering and masonic internationalism, c. 1890–c. 1930