The reform of public life in modern Britain, <i>c.</i> 1750–1950
E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, EPUB
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5002-8
Verlag: Manchester University Press
Format: EPUB
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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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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
Index