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Trust and Distrust
Mark Knights
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Corruption in Office in Britain and Its Empire, 1600-1850
出版Oxford University Press, 2021
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / Modern / GeneralHistory / Social HistoryLaw / GeneralPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismPolitical Science / Imperialism
ISBN01987962429780198796244
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=N4pNEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"The book offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850. As such, it is intended to appeal to historians but also to political and social scientists, whose work is extensively cited in an expansive and evaluative bibliography. Another distinctive feature of the book is the interaction of the domestic and imperial stories of corruption in office - a key argument is that these were intertwined and related. Linking corruption in office to the domestic and imperial state has not been attempted before, and the book makes extensive use of material 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 the book charts and seeks to explain. To do so, 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 of officials. The reader's report suggested that '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.' There is a brief concluding section highlighting policy implications"--