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

9781526150035: The many lives of corruption: The reform of public life in modern Britain, c. 1750-1950

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ISBN 10: 1526150034 ISBN 13: 9781526150035

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2022

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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Ian Cawood is Associate Professor in British Political and Religious History at the University of Stirling

Tom Crook is Reader in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University

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The many lives of corruption begins the task of piecing together the bigger picture of how corruption has undermined public life in modern Britain. It offers a uniquely expansive perspective which stretches from the Old Corruption and ‘unreformed’ politics of the eighteenth century through to the mass democracy and Welfare State of the twentieth.

Conceptually, as an object of thought, as much as practically, as an object of reform, corruption has proved tenaciously problematic and protean. This volume engages with both of these crucial aspects, arguing that it is only by grasping them together that we can fully understand how corruption has shaped the making of a democratic-capitalist state in Britain, and given rise to new ideals of public service. It examines the factors that have facilitated and frustrated anticorruption reforms, as well as the various ways ‘corruption’ has been conceived by historical agents. 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.

The many lives of corruption is essential reading for all scholars interested in understanding how the pursuit of purity in British public life has evolved over the past two and a half centuries – and why corruption remains such a pressing issue today.

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Verlag: Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN 10: 1526150034
ISBN 13: 9781526150035
Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten: 322
Herausgeber: Cawood Ian, Crook Tom
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