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Trust and Distrust - Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850 (Hardcover)
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Trust and Distrust - Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850 (Hardcover)
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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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