Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850
Autor Mark Knightsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 dec 2021
Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as such will appeal not only to historians, but also to political and social scientists. Mark Knights paints a picture of the interaction of the domestic and imperial stories of corruption in office, showing how these stories were intertwined and related. Linking corruption in office to the domestic and imperial state has not beenattempted before, and Knights does this by drawing on extensive interdisciplinary sources relating to the East India Company as well as other colonial officials in the Atlantic World and elsewhere in Britain's emerging empire.
Both 'corruption' and 'office' were concepts that were in evolution during the period 1600-1850 and underwent very significant but protracted change which this study charts and seeks to explain. The book makes innovative use of the concept of trust, which helped to shape office in ways that underlined principles of selflessness, disinterestedness, integrity, and accountability in officials.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0198796242
Pagini: 506
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
The scholarship on display here is remarkable ... [a] superb study
Knights's achievement is to set the attack on 'Old Corruption' in a much longer timeframe and a more interesting framework than the conventional view
In Trust & Distrust, Knights has produced a work of significant importance and breadth, one which deserves to be read by historians and non-historians alike with an interest in the politics and culture of early modern Britain and its empire.
Trust & Distrust is a magisterial piece of scholarship ... It will be the defining scholarly embarkation point for the study of corruption and anticorruption in early modern England and its empire for years to come.
... a remarkable scholarly achievement, and one that is especially impressive for its scope ...
This is a timely and persuasive contribution to both contemporary debates about corruption and office as well as scholarship on early modern Britain and one that will, indubitably and deservedly, have a strong impact on future research.