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Anti-corruption in seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain
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Knights, Mark (2018) Anti-corruption in seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain. In: Geltner, Guy and Kroeze, Ronald and Vitoria, Andre, (eds.) Anti-Corruption in History. From Antiquity to the Modern Era. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198809975
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Abstract
This chapter takes the premodern divide, which is framed in English historiography as the end of “old corruption,” as the starting point for a long-term overview of anticorruption in Britain and its colonies. Focusing on anticorruption movements, it adds another dimension to the paradox of modernization by showing that although a transition took place in the period between the late-sixteenth century and the nineteenth century, it was by no means a linear one: anticorruption measures to ensure the scrutiny of public accounts could be introduced in the late-seventeenth century, abandoned and then reintroduced later in the eighteenth century. The chapter also argues that there is a relationship between late-sixteenth-century Reformation and eighteenth-century reforms, both of which involved an attack on corruption.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford, United Kingdom | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780198809975 | ||||||
Book Title: | Anti-Corruption in History. From Antiquity to the Modern Era | ||||||
Editor: | Geltner, Guy and Kroeze, Ronald and Vitoria, Andre | ||||||
Official Date: | 7 February 2018 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 446 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198809975.003.0013 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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