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The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade (review)

The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade (review) journal of world history, march 2010 ish rather than on the empire's indigenous subjects. The British, including Lord Carnavon (the Colonial Secretary), Captain James Cook (the noted explorer), Robert Baden-Powell (the hero of the Boer War and founder of the Boy Scouts), and Charles Cornwallis (the governor of India), are the actors in this account. Indians, Native Americans, residents of Gibraltar, and other non-European individuals residing in colonized areas are ascribed less agency. The author tells us how the United Grand Lodge of England reacted when Prosonno Coomar Dutt, a Hindu merchant from Calcutta, petitioned for fraternal membership, but she does not explicitly explain why Dutt wished to join. Similarly, because of its focus upon British colonies and lodges this study buttresses the English tradition of claiming primacy for British Freemasonry. During Harland-Jacobs's period, continental European Freemasonry developed in various directions, some quite different from the British strain explicated here. While mentioning that some French Masonic lodges admitted women in the eighteenth century, for example, and noting that an atheistic "Latin Masonry" developed in the nineteenth century, this book creates the erroneous impression that Protestant, monarchical, British Freemasonry was the global Masonic movement's most significant manifestation. Thus, Simon http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade (review)

Harkin, Michael Eugene
Journal of World History , Volume 21 (1) – Apr 1, 2010
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journal of world history, march 2010 ish rather than on the empire's indigenous subjects. The British, including Lord Carnavon (the Colonial Secretary), Captain James Cook (the noted explorer), Robert Baden-Powell (the hero of the Boer War and founder of the Boy Scouts), and Charles Cornwallis (the governor of India), are the actors in this account. Indians, Native Americans, residents of Gibraltar, and other non-European individuals residing in colonized areas are ascribed less agency. The author tells us how the United Grand Lodge of England reacted when Prosonno Coomar Dutt, a Hindu merchant from Calcutta, petitioned for fraternal membership, but she does not explicitly explain why Dutt wished to join. Similarly, because of its focus upon British colonies and lodges this study buttresses the English tradition of claiming primacy for British Freemasonry. During Harland-Jacobs's period, continental European Freemasonry developed in various directions, some quite different from the British strain explicated here. While mentioning that some French Masonic lodges admitted women in the eighteenth century, for example, and noting that an atheistic "Latin Masonry" developed in the nineteenth century, this book creates the erroneous impression that Protestant, monarchical, British Freemasonry was the global Masonic movement's most significant manifestation. Thus, Simon

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