Overview
- Focuses on corruption in a colonial context
- Provides the first global and comparative survey on the history of corruption and empire
- Enlightens the measures to curb corruption in today’s society
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History (PASTCGH)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Corruption and Narratives of Imperial Decline and Reform During the Age of Revolutions, c. 1800
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Civilising Missions and “Oriental” Corruption During the Age of Modern Imperialism, c. 1900
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About this book
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.
Reviews
--William G. Clarence-Smith, Emeritus professor, SOAS University of London, UK
“This volume carefully unpacks the history of corruption in European empires and brings together fascinating cases from the Spanish, British, Dutch and French empires, with examples ranging from Cuba to Myanmar. The authors show how in empire corruption was both common practice and a political tool. Their contributions are relevant for scholars of colonialism, as much as for scholars of (historical) corruption.”
--Alicia Schrikker, Senior University Lecturer in Colonial and Global History, Leiden University, Netherlands
“This is an important collection of essays. It significantly advances our understanding of what has become a major scholarly problem –the political and cultural significance of corruption in the modern world– by offering one of the first sustained examinations of the relations between corruption and empire.”
--Alex Middleton, Lecturer in Modern British History, University of Oxford, UK
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ronald Kroeze is Associate Professor in Political History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Pol Dalmau is a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain.
Frédéric Monier is Professor of Contemporary History at Université d’Avignon, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era
Book Subtitle: A Global Perspective
Editors: Ronald Kroeze, Pol Dalmau, Frédéric Monier
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0255-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0254-2Published: 16 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0257-3Published: 17 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0255-9Published: 15 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-7965
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7973
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 362
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Political History, Social History, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary