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The many lives of corruption : the reform of public life in modern Britain, c. 1750-1950 /

This edited collection provides a uniquely expansive history of how corruption has undermined and exercised public life in modern Britain, from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. It provides the first account that pays equal attention to the successes and limitations of anticorruption...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cawood, Ian (Editor ), Crook, Tom, 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
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505 0 |a Introduction: corruption and the reform of public life in modern Britain -- Public spirit and corruption in the Scottish enlightenment : a reconsideration -- From the 'old' to the 'new' : corruption and the police, c. 1750-1910 -- 'A new tide of corruption' : economical reform and the regulation of the East India Company, 1765-84 -- 'A monster in politics' : corruption and economical reform in Jamaica, 1783-91 -- Corrupt practices and the reform of voting behaviour in Britain, France and the United States, c. 1789-1914 -- Corruption, despotism and the Colonial Office, c. 1820-50 -- The 'most difficult' subject for legislation : parliament and electoral corruption in the nineteenth century -- Politics, patronage or public service? Conservatives at the Foreign Office, 1858-9 -- Gladstonian liberalism, public service and private interests : reforming endowments -- After Old Corruption : Westminster scandals and the problem of corruption, c. 1880-1914 -- Socialism and corruption : conservative responses to nationalisation and poplarism, 1900-40 -- Civic corruption in the twentieth century : the case of Belfast and Glasgow, c. 1920-70 -- Epilogue: the British way in corruption. 
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