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.
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Table 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
- Introduction: Modernity's corruption and the art of separation
- Shifting grounds : the transformation of the East India Company
- Consequential reforms and changing corruption
- Modern selves
- Modern moral spaces.
