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Freemasonry in Federalist Connecticut, 1789-1835
By (Author) Dorothy Ann Lipson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
974.603
Paperback
392
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
Freemasonry prescribed for its members a supra-religious, supra-national philosophic universalism. Dorothy Ann Lipson examines its reception and adaptation in America, where its rapid spread was one index of increasing local diversity and cultural change. After tracing the English origins of Masonry, the author focuses on its development in post-R