many lives of corruption

Ian Cawood is Associate Professor in British Political and Religious History at the University of StirlingTom Crook is Reader in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University

• Introduction: corruption and the reform of public life in modern BritainIan Cawood and Tom Crook1 Public spirit and corruption in the Scottish Enlightenment: a reconsiderationCraig Smith2 From the ‘old’ to the ‘new’: corruption and the police, c. 1750–1910 Francis Dodsworth3 ‘A new tide of corruption’: economical reform and the regulation of the East India Company, 1765–84Ben Gilding4 ‘A monster in politics’: corruption and economical reform in Jamaica, 1783–91Aaron Graham5 Corrupt practices and the reform of voting behaviour in Britain, France and the United States, c. 1789–1914Malcolm Crook6 Corruption, despotism and the Colonial Office, c. 1820–50Alex Middleton7 The ‘most difficult’ subject for legislation: parliament and electoral corruption in the nineteenth centuryKathryn Rix8 Politics, patronage or public service? Conservatives at the Foreign Office, 1858–9Geoffrey Hicks9 Gladstonian Liberalism, public service and private interests: reforming endowmentsH. S. Jones10 After Old Corruption: Westminster scandals and the problem of corruption, c. 1880–1914Tom Crook11 Socialism and corruption: Conservative responses to nationalisation and Poplarism, 1900–40Liam Ryan12 Civic corruption in the twentieth century: the case of Belfast and Glasgow, c. 1920–70Peter JonesEpilogue: the British way in corruptionIan Cawood and Tom CrookIndex

'A rich and historically relevant work. It furthermore demonstrates how important a close examination of the issue of corruption is for our understanding of key debates in modern politics.'Ronald Kroeze, Historische Zeitschrift