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Author Ridley, Jasper Godwin.

Title The Freemasons : a history of the world's most powerful secret society / Jasper Ridley.

Imprint New York : Arcade Pub., 2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  366.109 R437f 2001    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description xii, 357 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-332) and index.
Contents Introduction -- 1. The masons -- 2. The heretics -- 3. The seventeenth century -- 4. Grand Lodge -- 5. The Pope's Bull -- 6. Germany and France -- 7. English Grand Lodge : 'Wilkes and liberty!' -- 8. Troubles and scandals -- 9. The American Revolution -- 10. The Magic flute -- 11. The French Revolution -- 12. Loyalist and revolutionary freemasons -- 13. Napoleon -- 14. The Restoration -- 15. The case of William Morgan -- 16. The Lautaro Lodge -- 17. The nineteenth century -- 18. The new assault on freemasonry -- 19. Freemasonry in the world -- 20. Modern freemasonry in Britain -- 21. Modern freemasonry in the United States -- 22. Are the freemasons a menace?
Summary Provides an in-depth history of freemasonry, exploring the inner workings of the powerful secret society, refuting many of the myths about the order, and shedding new light on the contributions of the freemasons to world history.
Subject Freemasons -- History.
ISBN 1559706015
9781559706018
1559706546 (pbk.)
9781559706544 (pbk.)
Standard No. NLGGC 236425579
YDXCP 1797407
NZ1 6456303
AU@ 000022930649
GEBAY 6765210
LQU 238257

 
    
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