The many lives of corruption: The reform of public life in modern Britain, <i>c.</i> 1750–1950

Front-matter
	Cover
	Half-title
	Title page
	Copyright page
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: corruption and the reform of public life in modern Britain
Public spirit and corruption in the Scottish Enlightenment: a reconsideration
From the ‘old’ to the ‘new’: corruption and the police, c. 1750–1910
‘A
new tide of corruption’: economical reform and the regulation of the East India Company, 1765–84
‘A
monster in politics’: corruption and economical reform in Jamaica, 1783–91
Corrupt
practices and the reform of voting behaviour in Britain, France and the United States, c. 1789–1914
Corruption, despotism and the Colonial Office, c. 1820–50
The
‘most difficult’ subject for legislation: parliament and electoral corruption in the nineteenth century
Politics,
patronage or public service? Conservatives at the Foreign Office, 1858–9
Gladstonian
Liberalism, public service and private interests: reforming endowments
After
Old Corruption: Westminster scandals and the problem of corruption, c. 1880–1914
Socialism
and corruption: Conservative responses to nationalisation and Poplarism, 1900–40
Civic
corruption in the twentieth century: the case of Belfast and Glasgow, c. 1920–70
Epilogue:
the British way in corruption
Index