The Many Lives of Corruption: The Reform of Public Life in Modern Britain, C. 1750-1950

by Tom Crook and Ian Cawood

How has corruption shaped - and undermined - the history of public life in modern Britain? This collection begins the task of piecing together this history over the past two and a half centuries, from the first assaults on Old Corruption and aristocratic privilege during the late eighteenth century through to the corruption scandals that blighted the worlds of Westminster and municipal government during the twentieth century.

It offers the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526150034
• ISBN13: 9781526150035
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"