Modernity's Corruption : : Empire and Morality in the Making of British India / / Nicholas Hoover Wilson.
Today, “corruption” generally refers to pursuing personal interests at the expense of one’s responsibilities, the law, or the common good. It calls to mind some official violating their public duty for private gain, suggesting seamy bureaucracies taking payoffs, kickbacks, and bribes. Yet at other t...
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Wilson, Nicholas Hoover, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Modernity's Corruption : Empire and Morality in the Making of British India / Nicholas Hoover Wilson. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource : 11 b&w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: Modernity’s Corruption and the Art of Separation -- 1 CORRUPTION AND MORAL ORDERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN AND INDIA -- 2 SHIFTING GROUNDS The Transformation of the East India Company -- 3 CONSEQUENTIAL REFORMS AND CHANGING CORRUPTION -- 4 MODERN SELVES -- 5 MODERN MORAL SPACES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Today, “corruption” generally refers to pursuing personal interests at the expense of one’s responsibilities, the law, or the common good. It calls to mind some official violating their public duty for private gain, suggesting seamy bureaucracies taking payoffs, kickbacks, and bribes. Yet at other times, notions of corruption were rooted in a more expansive view of the causes of people’s behavior and the appropriate ways to regulate conduct. In this understanding, to be “corrupt” meant losing a delicate balance among competing appetites under specific circumstances and in the eyes of peers. Why did a narrower definition of corruption become dominant?Nicholas Hoover Wilson develops a new account of the changing category of corruption by examining the English East India Company and its transformation from a largely commercial enterprise to a militarized offshoot of British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He argues that the modern idea of corruption arose as an unintended consequence of conflicts among company officials and the changing audiences to which they justified themselves in Britain. This new understanding unified an imperial elite at risk of fragmenting into irreconcilable moral worlds and, in the process, helped redefine the boundaries of state, society, and economy. Modernity’s Corruption is at once a novel historical sociology of imperial administration and its contradictions, a fresh argument about the nature of corruption and its political and organizational effects, and a reinvigoration of classic arguments about the nature and consequences of global modernity. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Corruption History 18th century. Corruption History 19th century. Great Britain Moral conditions Case studies. Public administration Corrupt practices India. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct . bisacsh https://doi.org/10.7312/wils19218 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231549707 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231549707/original |
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