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The Culture of Secrecy - Britain 1832-1998 (Hardcover)
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The Culture of Secrecy - Britain 1832-1998 (Hardcover)
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The Culture of Secrecy is the first comprehensive study of the
restriction of official information in modern British history. It
seeks to understand why secrets have been kept, and how systems of
control have been constructed - and challenged - over the past
hundred and sixty years. The author transcends the conventional
boundaries of political or social history in his wide-ranging
diagnosis of the `British disease' - the legal forms and habits of
mind which together have constituted the national tradition of
discreet reserve. The chapters range across bureaucrats and
ballots, gossip and gay rights, doctors and dole investigators in
their exploration of the ethical basis of power in the public,
professional, commercial and domestic spheres. Professor Vincent
examines concepts such as privacy and confidentiality, honour and
integrity, openness and freedom of expression, which have served as
benchmarks in the development of the liberal state and society.
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