Many Lives of Corruption

Many Lives of Corruption

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

Crook, Tom; Cawood, Ian

Manchester University Press

05/2022

320

Dura

Inglês

9781526150035

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: corruption and the reform of public life in modern Britain
Ian Cawood and Tom Crook
1 Public spirit and corruption in the Scottish Enlightenment: a reconsideration
Craig Smith
2 From the 'old' to the 'new': corruption and the police, c. 1750-1910
Francis Dodsworth
3 'A new tide of corruption': economical reform and the regulation of the East India Company, 1765-84
Ben Gilding
4 'A monster in politics': corruption and economical reform in Jamaica, 1783-91
Aaron Graham
5 Corrupt practices and the reform of voting behaviour in Britain, France and the United States, c. 1789-1914
Malcolm Crook
6 Corruption, despotism and the Colonial Office, c. 1820-50
Alex Middleton
7 The 'most difficult' subject for legislation: parliament and electoral corruption in the nineteenth century
Kathryn Rix
8 Politics, patronage or public service? Conservatives at the Foreign Office, 1858-9
Geoffrey Hicks
9 Gladstonian Liberalism, public service and private interests: reforming endowments
H. S. Jones
10 After Old Corruption: Westminster scandals and the problem of corruption, c. 1880-1914
Tom Crook
11 Socialism and corruption: Conservative responses to nationalisation and Poplarism, 1900-40
Liam Ryan
12 Civic corruption in the twentieth century: the case of Belfast and Glasgow, c. 1920-70
Peter Jones
Epilogue: the British way in corruption
Ian Cawood and Tom Crook

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conflicts of interest; Corrupt Practices Acts; economical reform; electoral bribery; Marconi affair; municipal graft; Northcote-Trevelyan Report; Old Corruption; patronage; Poulson affair