Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0198796242 | 506 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0198796242 | 506 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
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