A Dictionary Of Secret And Other Societies

Author: Arthur Preuss
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ISBN: 9781494118686
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This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.

Choice

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A History Of Chicago Volume Ii

Author: Bessie Louise Pierce
Editor: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226668401
File Size: 64,77 MB
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Traces the city's struggle for physical, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual growth throughout its history.

American Freemasons

Author: Mark A. Tabbert
Editor: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783023
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With over four million members worldwide, and two million in the U.S., Freemasonry is the largest fraternal organization in the world. Published in conjunction with the National Heritage Museum, this extravagantly illustrated volume offers an overview of Freemasonry’s origins in seventeenth-century Scotland and England before exploring its evolving role in American history, from the Revolution through the labor and civil rights movements, and into the twenty-first century. American Freemasons explores some of the causes for the rise and fall of membership in the fraternity and why it has attracted men in such large numbers for centuries. American Freemasons is the perfect introduction to understanding a society that, while shrouded in mystery, has played an integral role in the lives and communities of millions of Americans. Copublished with the National Heritage Museum

Forever L A

Author: Douglas Keister
Editor: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423616537
File Size: 48,17 MB
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Stunning photographs, fascinating text, and easy GPS directions for finding gracious architecture, fabulous artwork, and memorable gravesites of famous Los Angeles “residents.” Award-winning photographer/writer Douglas Keister has authored thirty-six critically acclaimed books on residential architecture as well as those on cemetery exploration. He lives in Chico, California. A simple guide for cemetery lovers.

The Ku Klux Klan And Freemasonry In 1920s America

Author: Miguel Hernandez
Editor: Routledge
ISBN: 0429883625
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The Second Ku Klux Klan’s success in the 1920s remains one of the order’s most enduring mysteries. Emerging first as a brotherhood dedicated to paying tribute to the original Southern organization of the Reconstruction period, the Second Invisible Empire developed into a mass movement with millions of members that influenced politics and culture throughout the early 1920s. This study explores the nature of fraternities, especially the overlap between the Klan and Freemasonry. Drawing on many previously untouched archival resources, it presents a detailed and nuanced analysis of the development and later decline of the Klan and the complex nature of its relationship with the traditions of American fraternalism.

Diminished Democracy

Author: Theda Skocpol
Editor: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806150173
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Pundits and social observers have voiced alarm each year as fewer Americans involve themselves in voluntary groups that meet regularly. Thousands of nonprofit groups have been launched in recent times, but most are run by professionals who lobby Congress or deliver social services to clients. What will happen to U.S. democracy if participatory groups and social movements wither, while civic involvement becomes one more occupation rather than every citizen’s right and duty? In Diminished Democracy, Theda Skocpol shows that this decline in public involvement has not always been the case in this country—and how, by understanding the causes of this change, we might reverse it.

The Dictionary Of Alternatives

Author: Martin Parker
Editor: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842773338
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This dictionary provides ammunition for those who disagree with the early twentieth-first century orthodoxy that 'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism'. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.

Dictionary Catalog Of The Research Libraries Of The New York Public Library 1911 1971

Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Memoirs Of The Secret Societies Of The South Of Italy

Author: Bertoldi
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Chambers S Encyclopaedia

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Chambers Encyclop Dia

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Chambers S Encyclop Dia

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Fraternal Organizations

Author: Alvin J. Schmidt
Editor: Greenwood
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File Size: 15,97 MB
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"an entertaining and informative history of the place of fraternal organizations in American culture. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries." Library Journal

The Fraternal Monitor

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Monograph Series United States Historical Society

Author: United States Catholic Historical Society
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Handbook Of Secret Organizations

Author: William Joseph Whalen
Editor: Milwaukee : Bruce Publishing Company
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File Size: 66,57 MB
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Study of the history, tenets and rituals of over fifty organizations including Knights of Columbus, Freemasons, Ku Klux Klan, Cosa Nostra, etc.

A Popular Law Dictionary Familiarly Explaining The Terms And Nature Of English Law

Author: Thomas Edlyne Tomlins
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From Mutual Aid To The Welfare State

Author: David T. Beito
Editor: Univ of North Carolina Press
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File Size: 20,65 MB
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David Beito's book establishes the enormous impact of fraternal societies on the social lives and fiscal circumstances of millions of Americans between 1890 and 1967. In addition to creating vast social and mutual aid networks for the poor and the working class, fraternal organizations offered insurance policies to members and established hospitals, orphanages, and homes for the elderly.