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Trust and Distrust
Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850
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ISBN-13:
9780198796244
Veröffentl:
2021
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.12.2021
Seiten:
506
Autor:
Mark Knights
Gewicht:
906 g
Format:
237x162x35 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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 Leadership Fellowship and in 2020 a Leverhulme Fellowship.
1: Introduction
Mark Knights offers the first overview of Britain's 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.