Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated. A Weekly Record of Progress in Freemasonry
Author: An Uneasy Relationship
Author: Maev O'CollinsPublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921666994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The situation of Norfolk Island, as a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia, is one of the historical anomalies in governance, which has persisted since 1914. It reflects the direct historical linkages between the British Crown and those Norfolk Islanders who were descendants of Pitcairn Islanders of Mutiny on the Bounty fame. Yet, once Federation was in the wind, the British Government, against the expressed wishes of the Norfolk Island community, sought to divest itself of all responsibility for Norfolk Island. There is a curiously ‘Yes Minister’ quality about the negotiations which lead to the final take-over by Australia, and the appointment of the first Commonwealth Administrator of Norfolk Island. The direct involvement of Atlee Hunt, then Secretary of the Department of External Affairs, eventually ensured the appointment of Michael Vincent Murphy. In order to achieve this end, Hunt had to fend off other applicants who were busy ingratiating themselves with the Minister for External Affairs Patrick McMahon Glynn and the then Prime Minister Joseph Cook. This is essentially a study of the relationships between governors, politicians, public servants and community leaders during the years which followed the take-over of Norfolk Island, and of the struggle of one Norfolk Islander, Charles Chase Ray Nobbs, against Australian administrative authority.
Freemasonry in the Pacific Region
Author: Grahame H. CummingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Builders of Empire
Author: Jessica L. Harland-JacobsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469606658
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs. In this first study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism, Harland-Jacobs takes readers on a journey across two centuries and five continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain's shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion of the British Empire. The organization formally emerged in 1717 as a fraternity identified with the ideals of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, such as universal brotherhood, sociability, tolerance, and benevolence. As Freemasonry spread to Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and Africa, the group's claims of cosmopolitan brotherhood were put to the test. Harland-Jacobs examines the brotherhood's role in diverse colonial settings and the impact of the empire on the brotherhood; in the process, she addresses issues of globalization, supranational identities, imperial power, fraternalism, and masculinity. By tracking an important, identifiable institution across the wide chronological and geographical expanse of the British Empire, Builders of Empire makes a significant contribution to transnational history as well as the history of the Freemasons and imperial Britain.
Freemason's Magazine, Or General and Complete Library
Author: Unfinished Revolution
Author: Anne-Maree WhitakerPublisher: Dr Anne-Maree Whitaker
ISBN: 9780646179513
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"400 United Irishmen and fellow-rebels brought the spirit of Irish rebellion "down under" in the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 - and changed Australia forever. At Castle Hill in 1804, this "army of shadows" carried on where they left off but during Bligh's overthrow in 1808, they stood back from a fight that was not theirs. The "political Irish" played a central role in the developing colony. Their professions, trades and skills made them useful as clerks, storekeepers and teachers, and fitted them to be overseers and constables, and helped bring self-sufficiency to the still-fragile colonial economy. They remained revolutionaries; only they negotiated change rather than raised warlike rebellion. Through their open defiance and quiet manipulation of authority, the harp "new strung" resonates to this day in the Australian ethos that United Irishmen helped to create." -- book cover.
Mackey's History of Freemasonry
Author: Albert Gallatin MackeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The History of Freemasonry
Author: Albert Gallatin MackeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Proceedings of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the Thirty-third and Last Degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America
Author: Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern JurisdictionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Includes reprints of proceedings.
The Australian Encyclopædia: A to Lys
Author: Arthur Wilberforce JosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description