Trust and Distrust - Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850
Trust and Distrust - Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850
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信任与不信任——英国及其帝国的办公室腐败，1600 年至 1850 年
DOI：
10.1093/oso/9780198796244.001.0001
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2021
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Knights M
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Knights M
这本书首次概述了前现代时期（1600-1850年）英国政府的腐败史。因此，它旨在吸引历史学家，也吸引政治和社会科学家，他们的工作被广泛引用在一个广泛的和评估的参考书目中。这本书的另一个显著特点是国内和帝国的腐败故事的相互作用——一个关键的论点是，这些都是相互交织和相关的。以前从未有人试图将政府腐败与国内和帝国联系起来，这本书大量使用了与东印度公司以及大西洋世界和英国新兴帝国其他地方的其他殖民官员有关的材料。“腐败”和“官职”这两个概念都是在1600-1850年间不断演变的，经历了非常重要但旷日持久的变化，这本书试图对其进行描述和解释。为了做到这一点，这本书创新地运用了信任的概念，这一概念有助于塑造办公室，强调无私、无私、诚信和官员问责的原则。读者的报告表明，“这段漫长时期的历史学家都不能忽视这本书，它肯定会吸引大量的读者，不仅是英国及其帝国的历史学家，还有更广泛的政治科学家。”“有一个简短的总结部分，突出了政策含义”——
" The book offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850. As such, it is intended to appeal to historians but also to political and social scientists, whose work is extensively cited in an expansive and evaluative bibliography. Another distinctive feature of the book is the interaction of the domestic and imperial stories of corruption in office-a key argument is that these were intertwined and related. Linking corruption in office to the domestic and imperial state has not been attempted before, and the book makes extensive use of material relating to the East India Company as well as other colonial officials in the Atlantic World and elsewhere in Britain's emerging empire. Both'corruption'and'office'were concepts that were in evolution during the period 1600-1850 and underwent very significant but protracted change which the book charts and seeks to explain. To do so, the book makes innovative use of the concept of trust, which helped to shape office in ways that underlined principles of selflessness, disinterestedness, integrity, and accountability of officials. The reader's report suggested that'no historian of this long period can afford to ignore the book, and it will certainly appeal to a large readership not only among historians of Britain and its empire but among political scientists more generally.'There is a brief concluding section highlighting policy implications"--