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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Associations, clubs, societies
Freemasonry played a major role in the economic and social life of
the Victorian era but it has received very little sustained
attention by academic historians. General histories of the period
hardly notice the subject while detailed studies mainly confine
themselves to its origins in the early eighteenth century and its
later institutional development. This book is the first sustained
and dispassionate study of the role of Freemasonry in everyday
social and economic life: why men joined, what it did for them and
their families, and how it affected the development of communities
and local economies.
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