Modernity''s Corruption - Empire and Morality in the Making of British India

Nicholas Hoover Wilson develops a new account of the changing category of corruption by examining the English East India Company and its transformation from a largely commercial enterprise to a militarized offshoot of British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: Modernity’s Corruption and the Art of Separation
1. Corruption and Moral Orders in Eighteenth-Century Britain and India
2. Shifting Grounds: The Transformation of the East India Company
3. Consequential Reforms and Changing Corruption
4. Modern Selves
5. Modern Moral Spaces
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Nicholas Hoover Wilson is associate professor of sociology at Stony Brook University.

Summary

Nicholas Hoover Wilson develops a new account of the changing category of corruption by examining the English East India Company and its transformation from a largely commercial enterprise to a militarized offshoot of British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Hoover Wilson
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2023
• EAN: 9780231192194
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19219-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, India, Political corruption, Economic history, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Asian History, Corruption in politics, government and society, HISTORY / Asia / South / India, business & economics; history; political science