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The Freemasons : a history of the world's most powerful secret society / Jasper Ridley.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HS403 .R54 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ridley, Jasper Godwin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freemasons--History.
- Freemasons.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 357 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Arcade Pub., [2001]
- Summary:
- An eminent historian offers a thoughtful and rounded assessment of freemasonry through the ages, from Mozart, Bach, and Oscar Wilde to famous members of the present day.
- Contents:
- 1 The Masons 1
- 2 The Heretics 9
- 3 The Seventeenth Century 17
- 4 Grand Lodge 29
- 5 The Pope's Bull 47
- 6 Germany and France 59
- 7 English Grand Lodge: 'Wilkes and Liberty!' 68
- 8 Troubles and Scandals 80
- 9 The American Revolution 90
- 10 The Magic Flute 110
- 11 The French Revolution 122
- 12 Loyalist and Revolutionary Freemasons 138
- 13 Napoleon 151
- 14 The Restoration 162
- 15 The Case of William Morgan 176
- 16 The Lautaro Lodge 191
- 17 The Nineteenth Century 205
- 18 The New Assault on Freemasonry 222
- 19 Freemasonry in the World 236
- 20 Modern Freemasonry in Britain 257
- 21 Modern Freemasonry in the United States 264
- 22 Are the Freemasons a Menace? 279.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-332) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1559706015
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