This groundbreaking work explores the important role of the 18th century masonic movement in transAtlantic trade, politics, and social development. It offers important new insight into the role of freemasonry in forming international trade networks, its role in organizing resistance to British rule in the American colonies, and masonry’s role in the development of Haiti, the wider Caribbean, and the African Atlantic. With special focus on the vibrant international masonic networks emanating from Boston and Saint Domingue, this book explores the formation of commercial and political networks that altered the face of the Atlantic world and the early American republics.
By:
Hans Schwartz
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 225mm,
Width: 150mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 534g
ISBN: 9781636670492
ISBN 10: 1636670490
Pages: 370
Publication Date: 03 November 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
The Ancient and Honorable Society – Global Growth, Politics and Persecution: The Grand Lodge and Universal Freemasonry – ""Lovers of the Liberal Arts and Sciences"": Freemasonry and the Scientific Enlightenment – From Noah to Newton: Creating the History of an Ancient Society – Navigating the Masonic Globe: Print Culture, Masonic Communication and Connection in the Eighteenth- Century Atlantic and Beyond – St. John’s Grand Lodge Boston: ""Masonry in British America has Wholely Originated from Us."" – The Grand Lodges’ Correspondence: Communication and Connection in the British Masonic Atlantic – Making Headlines: The Craft in the Colonial Press – The Lodge of St. Andrew: ""Headquarters of the Revolution"" – Revolutionary Boston and Beyond: Freemasonry and the Sons of Liberty – Boston’s African Lodge: Hub of the Black Masonic Universe – Freemasonry Across the Black Atlantic – Perfect Scots, Peevish Gauls, and American Republicans: The Far— Flung Masonic Networks of the French Caribbean – Commerce, Connections, and Conspiracy Theorists: Pennsylvania’s Grand Lodge of Santo Domingo – Epilogue: ""To Vie with the Best Established Republic"" – Works Cited – Index.
Hans Schwartz earned his doctorate in Atlantic World and early American history from Clark University and his masters in history from Salem State University. He has presented papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, the German Historical Institute, and the Ars Quoatuor Coronati conference, among others, and has published chapters in several books on freemasonry. As a professor, he has taught at institutions including Northeastern, Clark, and Endicott College as well as in Japan.
