The Many Lives of Corruption : The Reform of Public Life in Modern Britain, C. 1750-1950 / edited by Ian Cawood and Tom Crook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cawood, Ian, editor.

Crook, Tom, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corruption.

Great Britain--Social life and customs.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2022]

Summary:

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 reforms, and the shifting meanings of 'corruption'.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: corruption and the reform of public life in modern Britain

1 Public spirit and corruption in the Scottish Enlightenment: a reconsideration

2 From the ‘old’ to the ‘new’: corruption and the police, c. 1750–1910

3 ‘A new tide of corruption’: economical reform and the regulation of the East India Company, 1765–84

4 ‘A monster in politics’: corruption and economical reform in Jamaica, 1783–91

5 Corrupt practices and the reform of voting behaviour in Britain, France and the United States, c. 1789–1914

6 Corruption, despotism and the Colonial Office, c. 1820–50

7 The ‘most difficult’ subject for legislation: parliament and electoral corruption in the nineteenth century

8 Politics, patronage or public service? Conservatives at the Foreign Office, 1858–9

9 Gladstonian Liberalism, public service and private interests: reforming endowments

10 After Old Corruption: Westminster scandals and the problem of corruption, c. 1880–1914

11 Socialism and corruption: Conservative responses to nationalisation and Poplarism, 1900–40

12 Civic corruption in the twentieth century: the case of Belfast and Glasgow, c. 1920–70

Epilogue: the British way in corruption

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Cawood, Ian The Many Lives of Corruption

ISBN:

9781526169891

1526169894

9781526150042

1526150042

9781526150028

1526150026

OCLC:

1315650682