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

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

Edited By Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs, Jan C. Jansen, Elizabeth Mancke Copyright 2021
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge
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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. Fraternalism was a key strategy for people swept up in the dislocations of imperialism, large-scale migrations, and the socio-political upheavals of revolution. Ranging from confraternities... Read more

The fraternal Atlantic: An introduction

Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs, Jan C. Jansen and Elizabeth Mancke

Part I: Revolutions

1. From a cosmopolitan fraternity to an imperialist institution: Freemasonry in British North America in the 1780s–1790s

Bonnie Huskins

2. Brothers in exile: Masonic lodges and the refugees of the Haitian Revolution, 1790s–1820

Jan C. Jansen

Part II: Race

3. A secret brotherhood? The question of black Freemasonry before and after the Haitian Revolution

John D. Garrigus

4. "Perfectly proper and conciliating": Jean-Pierre Boyer, freemasonry, and the revolutionary Atlantic in eastern Connecticut, 1800–1801

Peter P. Hinks

Part III: Tensions

5. Atlantic antagonism: Revolution and race in German-American Masonic relations, 1848–1861

Andreas Önnerfors

6. The great divide: Transatlantic brothering and masonic internationalism, c. 1890–c. 1930

Joachim Berger

Biography

Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida, USA; her research focuses on the British Empire and comparative imperialism.

Jan C. Jansen is a professor of global history at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research interests include comparative imperial history, refugee history, and the history of the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds.

Elizabeth Mancke studies the geopolitical impact of European expansion on systems of governance. She is a Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

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