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Corruption in Urban Politics and Society, Britain 1780-1950 / Edited by James Moore and John Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Historical Urban StudiesPublication details: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2007 c2007.Description: viii, 181 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780754637059
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.13230941 22 COR
LOC classification:
  • JS3025 .C67 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Corruption and urban governance -- Locating corruption: language and the respectable -- Corruption: a tentative overview / John Garrard -- Corrupt and corporate bodies: attitudes to corruption in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century towns / Rosemary Sweet -- Getting away with it?: corruption, scandal and the respectable 1830-1945 / Sarah Wilson -- Managing corruption: attitudes and ethics -- Corruption and scandal in the port of Liverpool / Adrian Jarvis -- Municipal corruption and political partisanship in Manchester / James Moore -- "Certified correct" : the great Wolverhampton Council fraud / John Smith -- "The dramas of local government: public service and personal ethics -- In Winifred Holtby's South Riding" / Clare Griffiths -- "Rotten boroughs: the crisis of urban policing and the decline in municipal independence, 1914-1964" / Chris Williams.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Corruption and urban governance -- Locating corruption: language and the respectable -- Corruption: a tentative overview / John Garrard -- Corrupt and corporate bodies: attitudes to corruption in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century towns / Rosemary Sweet -- Getting away with it?: corruption, scandal and the respectable 1830-1945 / Sarah Wilson -- Managing corruption: attitudes and ethics -- Corruption and scandal in the port of Liverpool / Adrian Jarvis -- Municipal corruption and political partisanship in Manchester / James Moore -- "Certified correct" : the great Wolverhampton Council fraud / John Smith -- "The dramas of local government: public service and personal ethics -- In Winifred Holtby's South Riding" / Clare Griffiths -- "Rotten boroughs: the crisis of urban policing and the decline in municipal independence, 1914-1964" / Chris Williams.

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