Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850 by

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Trust and Distrust by Mark Knights Mark Knights offers the first overview of Britains history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850. 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. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britains 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 Britainsemerging 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. Author Biography 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 LeadershipFellowship and in 2020 a Leverhulme Fellowship. Table of Contents 1: Introduction2: Indian Civil Servants3: Conceptualising Office4: Conceptualising Corruption5: Trust, Standards of Public Office, and Corruption6: Interest and Disinterestedness7: Public Money, Public Accounts, and Accountability8: Informal Accountability9: Freedom of the Press and Anti-Corruption10: The Politics of Anti-Corruption11: Sale of Office12: Gifts and Informal Profits of Office13: Conclusion14: Policy Implications Review No historian of this long period can afford to ignore the book and it will certainly appeal to a large readership not only among historians of Britain and its empire but among political scientists more generally. * Paul Slack, Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History, Linacre College, University of Oxford *The scholarship on display here is remarkable ... [a] superb study * Ian Cawood, Times Literary Supplement *Knightss achievement is to set the attack on Old Corruption in a much longer timeframe and a more interesting framework than the conventional view * Prof Jonathan Parry (Cambridge), London Review of Books 15 Jan 2022 *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. * Ben Gilding, Culture and Social History *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. * Robert Bucholz, The American Historical Review *... a remarkable scholarly achievement, and one that is especially impressive for its scope ... * Paul Kosmetatos, Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies *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. * Hannes Ziegler, Journal of British Studies * Long Description Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britains 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 Britainsemerging 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. Review Quote "No historian of this long period can afford to ignore the book and it will certainly appeal to a large readership not only among historians of Britain and its empire but among political scientists more generally." -- Paul Slack, Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History, Linacre College, University of Oxford "The scholarship on display here is remarkable ... [a] superb study" -- Ian Cawood, Times Literary Supplement "Knightss achievement is to set the attack on Old Corruption in a much longer timeframe and a more interesting framework than the conventional view" -- Prof Jonathan Parry (Cambridge), London Review of Books 15 Jan 2022 Feature Offers the first overview of the story of the development of public and corporate office in pre-modern BritainEmphasises the need to relate ideas about corruption to the national and colonial contexts, explaining why Britains development of a civil service was fundamentally shaped by its political, religious, economic, social and cultural history, both domestic and imperialAdopts a broad view of what constituted office, including those in the trading corporations that spearheaded colonisation, and so addresses the role of corruption in the history of imperial expansionHighlights the importance of trust for understanding the evolution of standards in officeDraws on and addresses research in cognate disciplines to history, such as the political and social sciences, and law Details ISBN0198796242 Author Mark Knights Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2021 ISBN-10 0198796242 ISBN-13 9780198796244 Format Hardcover Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-12-09 Publication Date 2021-12-09 UK Release Date 2021-12-09 Subtitle Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850 DEWEY 345.4102323 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2022-01-23 Pages 506 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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