Mark Knights

Trust and Distrust (eBook, PDF)

Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850

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Produktbeschreibung

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 been attempted 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192516046
• Artikelnr.: 63022640

Autorenporträt

Mark Knights has published extensively on early modern Britain with a particular focus on its political culture. His first book was Politics and Opinion in Crisis, 1678-1681 (1994), and he then worked for the History of Parliament on its 1690-1715 volumes. He moved to the University of Warwick in 2007 and has directed its Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre. The book about to be published won two awards, the first 2014-16 an AHRC Leadership Fellowship and in 2020 a Leverhulme Fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Indian Civil Servants
3: Conceptualising Office
4: Conceptualising Corruption
5: Trust, Standards of Public Office, and Corruption
6: Interest and Disinterestedness
7: Public Money, Public Accounts, and Accountability
8: Informal Accountability
9: Freedom of the Press and Anti-Corruption
10: The Politics of Anti-Corruption
11: Sale of Office
12: Gifts and Informal Profits of Office
13: Conclusion
14: Policy Implications