Corruption Empire And Colonialism In The Modern Era

Author : Ronald Kroeze,Pol Dalmau,Frédéric Monier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811602559

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Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era by Ronald Kroeze,Pol Dalmau,Frédéric Monier Pdf

Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world. It does so through a set of original studies that examine the multi-layered nature of corruption in four different empires (Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands and France) and their possessions in Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa. It offers a key read for scholars interested in the fields of corruption, colonialism/empire and global history. The chapters ‘Introduction: Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era: Towards a Global Perspective’, ‘“Corrupt and rapacious”: Colonial Spanish-American past through the eyes of early nineteenth century contemporaries. A contribution from the history of emotions’, and ‘Colonial Normativity? Corruption in the Dutch-Indonesian Relationship in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries’ are Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Author : Ronald Kroeze,André Vitória,Guy Geltner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192538031

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Anticorruption in History by Ronald Kroeze,André Vitória,Guy Geltner Pdf

Anticorruption in History is a timely and urgent book: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem we face as a global society, undermining trust in government and financial institutions, economic efficiency, the principle of equality before the law and human wellbeing in general. Corruption, in short, is a major hurdle on the "path to Denmark" a feted blueprint for stable and successful statebuilding. The resonance of this view explains why efforts to promote anticorruption policies have proliferated in recent years. But while the subject of corruption and anticorruption has captured the attention of politicians, scholars, NGOs and the global media, scant attention has been paid to the link between corruption and the change of anticorruption policies over time and place, with the attendant diversity in how to define, identify and address corruption. Economists, political scientists and policy-makers in particular have been generally content with tracing the differences between low-corruption and high-corruption countries in the present and enshrining them in all manner of rankings and indices. The long-term trends—social, political, economic, cultural—potentially undergirding the position of various countries plays a very small role. Such a historical approach could help explain major moments of change in the past as well as reasons for the success and failure of specific anticorruption policies and their relation to a country's image (of itself or as construed from outside) as being more or less corrupt. It is precisely this scholarly lacuna that the present volume intends to begin to fill. The book addresses a wide range of historical contexts: Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Eurasia, Italy, France, Great Britain and Portugal as well as studies on anticorruption in the Early Modern and Modern era in Romania, the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the former German Democratic Republic.

Author : Philip Dwyer,Amanda Nettelbeck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319629230

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Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World by Philip Dwyer,Amanda Nettelbeck Pdf

This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire. Bringing together scholars from around the world, the book includes chapters on British, French, Dutch, Italian and Japanese colonies and conquests. It considers multiple experiences of colonial violence, ranging from political dispute to the non-lethal violence of everyday colonialism and the symbolic repression inherent in colonial practices and hierarchies. These comparative case studies show how violence was used to assert and maintain control in the colonies, contesting the long held view that the colonial project was of benefit to colonised peoples.

Author : ?a? A. Ergene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198916239

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Defining Corruption in the Ottoman Empire by ?a? A. Ergene Pdf

How did the premodern Ottomans understand public office corruption? To answer this question, Defining Corruption in the Ottoman Empire explores how Ottoman jurists, statesmen, political commentators, and others characterized this notion and what specific transgressions they associated with it before the nineteenth century. The book is based on extensive research and a wide variety of sources, including jurisprudential texts, imperial orders and communications, chronicles, and travel and diplomatic accounts. It identifies articulations of self-interested abuses of power by official and communal actors in these sources and illustrates how they resonate in some ways with modern perspectives. These premodern formulations, however, are shown to have collectively constituted a conceptual space that was contentious and temporally unstable, and no single overarching term was able to encapsulate all the specific misdeeds frequently linked to modern depictions of corruption. The book's genre-specific discursive survey is complemented by discussions that highlight, in the Ottoman context, the shifty boundaries that separated legitimate and illegitimate forms of revenue extraction; that examine the state's efforts to monitor and punish abuses by government officials; and that explore the context-dependent and often contested moralities of many acts, such as gift giving as bribery, office selling, and favoritism. It also considers the ways in which "corrupt" state actors might have rationalized their offenses. Defining Corruption is a conceptually driven work that is both comparative and interdisciplinary, engaging seriously with non-Ottoman historiographies, including broader Middle Eastern, European, and Chinese, and multiple disciplines besides history, in particular anthropology and economics, to provide a comprehensive analysis of premodern Ottoman perceptions of administrative abuse.

Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674034266

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The Scandal of Empire by Nicholas B. Dirks Pdf

Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public understanding of the Company’s corrupt actions by creating an image of a vulnerable India that needed British assistance. Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission. In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England’s development in the eighteenth century and beyond. We see how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion. In this powerfully written and trenchant critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.

Author : Mark Knights
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192516053

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Trust and Distrust by Mark Knights Pdf

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 attempted before, and Knights does this by drawing on extensive interdisciplinary sources 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 this study charts and seeks to explain. 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 in officials.

Author : Herman Lebovics
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0822336979

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Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies by Herman Lebovics Pdf

Claims that liberalism tends to produce empires and empire kills or corrupts democracy in metropolitan "home" countries, using examples from British, French, and American imperial histories.

Author : Zak Leonard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009321068

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Ethical Empire? by Zak Leonard Pdf

Explores how British and Indian reformers in the Victorian period agitated against the abuses of power undergirding colonial rule.

Author : Moisés Prieto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429589065

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Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution by Moisés Prieto Pdf

Between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the idea of dictatorship changed drastically, leaving back the ancient Roman paradigm and opening the way to a rule with extraordinary powers and which was unlimited in time. While the French Revolution produced an acceleration of history and created new narratives of dictatorship, with Napoleon Bonaparte as its most iconic embodiment, the Latin American struggle for independence witnessed an unprecedented concentration of rulers seeking those new nations’ sovereignty through dictatorial rule. Starting from the assumption that the age of revolution was one of dictators too, this book aims at exploring how this new type of rulers whose authority was no longer based on dynastic succession or religious consecration sought legitimacy. By unveiling the role of emotions – hope, fear and nostalgia – in the making of a new paradigm of rule and focusing on the narratives legitimizing and de-legitimizing dictatorship, this study goes beyond traditional conceptual history. For this purpose, different sources such as libels, history treatises, encyclopedias, plays, poems, librettos, but also visual material will be resorted to. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of modern history, the history of emotions, intellectual history, global history, cultural studies and political science.

Author : Budy Prasetyo Resosudarmo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819701223

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The Indonesian Economy and the Surrounding Regions in the 21st Century by Budy Prasetyo Resosudarmo Pdf

Author : Brenda Lynn Edgar,Valérie Gorin,Dolores Martín-Moruno
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031008245

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Making Humanitarian Crises by Brenda Lynn Edgar,Valérie Gorin,Dolores Martín-Moruno Pdf

This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role images have in shaping cultural, social and political reactions to the suffering of others and to the establishment of the international networks of solidarity. Questioning certain emotions assumed to underlie humanitarianism such as sympathy, empathy and compassion, they demonstrate how the experience of such emotions has shifted over time. Understanding images as emotional objects, contributors from a wide horizon of disciplines explore how their production, circulation and reception has been crucial to the perception of humanitarian crises in a long-term historical perspective.

Author : Jack P. Greene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030558

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Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Jack P. Greene Pdf

This book analyzes how Britons celebrated and critiqued their empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. It focuses on the emergence of an early awareness of the undesirable effects of British colonialism on both overseas Britons and subaltern people in the British Empire, whether in India, the Americas, Africa, or Ireland.

Author : Ann-Perry Witmer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031076923

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Contextual Engineering by Ann-Perry Witmer Pdf

This book shows readers a new way of thinking about the engineering design process, as well as how to expand their understanding of the role of technical designers in society, whether working with international communities or user populations from their own hometown. As readers build an understanding of Contextual Engineering, this book will challenge them to think about the applicability of the concept more broadly, not only in terms of technical design but in personal and professional interactions with others as well. At the same time, readers will learn techniques to explore their own predispositions and the biases they may not be aware they have, equipping them to interact with others more impartially. This self-reflection process also assists the designer in working with and accepting the uncertainty that is inherent in exploring context.

Author : John Atkinson Hobson
Publisher : London : [s.n.]
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:49015000434994

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Imperialism by John Atkinson Hobson Pdf

Author : Arndt Brendecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110395815

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The Empirical Empire by Arndt Brendecke Pdf

How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories? In 1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete knowledge" about the empire they were running from out of Madrid, and he initiated an impressive program for the systematic collection of empirical knowledge. Brendecke shows why this knowledge was created in the first place – but then hardly used. And he looks into the question of what political effects such a policy of knowledge had for Spain’s colonial rule.