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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nicholas Hoover Wilson
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.05.2023
• EAN: 9780231192187
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19218-7
• Pagine: 312
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; 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