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Author Knights, Mark, author.

Title Trust and distrust : corruption in office in Britain and its empire, 1600-1850 / Mark Knights
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents 1: Introduction -- 2: Indian Civil Servants -- 3: Conceptualising Office -- 4: Conceptualising Corruption in Office -- 5: Trust, Standards of Public Office, and Corruption -- 6: Interest and Disinterestedness -- 7: Public Money, Public Accounts, and Accountability -- 8: Informal Accountability, Distrust, and Speaking Out -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Mark Knights offers an overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era between 1600 and 1850. Drawing on extensive archival material, Knights shows how corruption in the domestic and imperial spheres interacted, and how the concept of corruption developed during this period, changing British ideas of trust and distrust
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 1, 2021)
Subject Misconduct in office -- Great Britain -- History
Corruption -- Great Britain -- History
Corruption.
Misconduct in office.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192516046
0192516043
9780191837326
0191837326