Hands across the Sea

The Masonic Network, British Imperialism, and the North Atlantic World

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4803603
AutoresJessica Harland‐jacob (0000-0003-4277-2845, autor correspondente), Jessica Harland-Jacobs, Jessica Harland‐jacobs
Ano1999
Volume89
Fascículo2
Páginas237-253
Data de publicação1999-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.1999.tb00216.x
OpenAlexW2123663298
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas17

From Montreal to Madras, from Barbados to Burma, the lodges of Freemasons dotted the landscape of the British Empire from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. Together with the British grand lodges under whose authority they met, these lodges constituted a vast network that extended across the oceans and linked Freemasons in Britain's colonies to the metropole and to each other. In this article I use the fraternity to demonstrate how the age of empire can serve as a laboratory for studying transoceanic networks, institutions, and identities. Looking first at the broad imperial context, I demonstrate how the global Masonic network developed and describe its functions during the long nineteenth century. I then focus on the British North Atlantic as a case study of the brotherhood's role in connecting people on various sides of a particular ocean basin by offering practical services and encouraging an “imperialist” identity that helped consolidate the British Empire

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Atlantic World · British Empire · Context (archaeology · Empire · Fraternity · Geography · Identity (music · Imperial unit system · Long nineteenth century · Political science · Australian History and Society · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Geology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Oceanography