Many Lives of Corruption

The Reform of Public Life in Modern Britain, c. 1750–1950

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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How has corruption shaped – and undermined – the history of public life in modern Britain? This collection begins the task of piecing together this history over the past two and a half centuries, from the first assaults on Old Corruption and aristocratic privilege during the late eighteenth century through to the corruption scandals that blighted the worlds of Westminster and municipal government during the twentieth century. It offers the first account that pays equal attention to the successes and limitations of anticorruption reforms and the shifting meanings of ‘corruption’. It does so across a range of different sites – electoral, political and administrative, domestic and colonial – presenting new research on neglected areas of reform, while revisiting well known scandals and corrupt practices.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-05-10
Mått138 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt522 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526150035

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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