Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Torra-Prat, Ricard; Brendecke, Arndt; Pubill-Brugués, Joan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times challenges current historiographical approaches, proposing new interpretations to rethink the relation between corruption and the socio-political and economic transformations since early globalisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040115367
• Artikelnr.: 72270726

Autorenporträt

Ricard Torra-Prat is a Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Fellow at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is the project leader of Political Corruption and Statebuilding in 18th Century Spanish Monarchy, and the author of "Francesc Eiximenis and the Catalan idea of corruption in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon" (2021). Joan Pubill-Brugués is a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellow at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and enseignant vacataire at the Université de Perpignan. He is the co-editor of Las sombras de la transparencia. Secreto, corrupción y "estado profundo" en la España contemporánea (2022). Arndt Brendecke holds the Early Modern History Chair at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He is the spokesperson of the SFB 1369 Vigilanzkulturen and the author of The empirical empire: Spanish colonial rule and the politics of knowledge (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: A commentary on corruption and control from the perspective of
the Cultures of Vigilance Introduction. Corruption and the Modernisation of
the State. A short introduction to a long-term process (1600-1900) Part 1:
Blurred Lines: Conceptualising corruption in the early modern era and
beyond 1. Defining Corruption in the Holy Roman Empire: The Gülich Revolt
in Cologne and its Monument to Social Deviance 2. The Pietist Campaign
against Corruption 1660-1700 3. The Perception of Corruption in Croatian
Public Service in 17th and 18th Centuries: Tradition and Reform 4.
Conceptualising Corruption as a Systemic Issue Part 2: From Vigilance to
Scandal. Performing Corruption and Anti-corruption 5. How to harmonise
republican and social norms in an aristocracy? Election and corruption in
the Republic of Venice (1500-1797) 6. Wielding a Many-Edged Sword:
Constitutional Struggle, Political Modernisation, and the Ambiguity of
Corruption Rhetoric in Early Modern Württemberg 7. A Complicit State?
Discourses around Corruption and the Role of the State within the Context
of Modern Colonial Empires: the Case of the Dutch Empire, c. 1850-1880s 8.
"To new revolutions": vigilance, mistrust and corruption in France under
the July Monarchy (1830-1848) 9. Gratifying Candidates and Rewarding Voters
in the Early Twentieth Century Romania: Electoral Practices and Strategies
Part 3: The Divergent Routes towards Modernity 10. Time, Context and
Language in the Analysis of Corruption in the Early Modern Period 11.
Native Litigation, Contraband Trade, and a Corrupt Custiodian of Justice in
Colonial Mexico, 1704-1721 12. The Naturalisation of Political Corruption
in Spanish Literature: the Generation of 1868 13. A national culture of
corruption? Spain in transnational perspective (18th-19th Centuries) 14.
Hopeless corruption? Negotiating modernity in Wallachia and Moldavia in the
1830s 15. Some Theses on the History of Corruption in the Modern Era