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

by Tom Crook and Ian Cawood

This edited collection provides a uniquely expansive history of how corruption has undermined and exercised public life in modern Britain, from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. It provides the first account that pays equal attention to the successes and limitations of anticorruption reforms, and shifting meanings of 'corruption'.

• 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"