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Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era
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.
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times challenges current historiographical approaches, proposing new interpretations to rethink the relation between corruption and the socio-political and economic transformations since early globalisation. By adopting both transnational and long-term approaches, the book explores the historical dimension of notions such as accountability, transparency, and vigilance in their immediate political, social, and legal contexts. The starting point is to view corruption not as a moral category that emerged in 1789 to delegitimise past, foreign or present state systems, but as a constantly contested concept that must also be historicised in past societies. The collection revisits chronologies and examines different local, regional, and national frames, highlighting that the path to modernity was contested and affected by a variety of unique circumstances, such as revolutions and external political powers. Building on the latest research and offering new methods of inquiry, this book is a compelling resource for academics interested in political history and the history of corruption.
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717–1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia's medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul Freedman shows, Caresmar's books, essays, and transcriptions—some only recently discovered—provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages as remembered in modern Catalonia and illustrate how a nation's past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture. From the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, Catalonia was a thriving, independent set of principalities within what would...
The Origins of Catalan Nationalism, 1770-1898
This book looks at the reasons behind the emergence of a Catalan nationalist movement from the late 1880s, one of the most important developments that took place in nineteenth-century Spain, with the 'Catalan question' thereafter never far from the centre of the Spanish political stage.
Banished
This book aims to study the departure and reception of refugees in 19th-century Europe, from the Congress of Vienna to the 1870-1880s. Through eight chapters, it draws on a transnational approach to analyze migratory movements across European borders. The book reviews the chronology of exile and shows how European states welcomed, selected, and expelled refugees. In addition to presenting the point of view of nation-states, it reflects the experience of those migrating. The book addresses departure into exile, captured through the material circumstances of crossing borders in the 19th century, and examines the emergence of new ways to pursue political commitments from abroad. The outcasts ar...
The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government
Recent research demonstrates that the quality of public institutions are crucial for a number of important environmental, social, economic, and political outcomes, and thereby human well-being. The Quality of Government (QoG) approach directs attention to issues such as impartiality in theexercise of public power, professionalism in public service delivery, effective measures against corruption, and meritocracy instead of patronage and nepotism in the hiring of public sector employees.This handbook offer a comprehensive, state of the art overview of this rapidly expanding research field and also identifies viable avenues for future research. The initial chapters focus on theoretical approach...
Manuel Cortina Arenzana
Este texto analiza la trayectoria y actividad parlamentarias de Manuel Cortina Arenzana entre 1839 y 1856. Fue un carismático líder progresista, ministro de Gobernación durante la Regencia del general Espartero. Destacado miembro de las élites parlamentarias liberales, apostó por la conciliación y el entendimiento entre las diferentes facciones del liberalismo español, sin renunciar a sus principios progresistas. Su actividad parlamentaria, influida por su sólida formación como jurista, contribuyó sustancialmente a asentar principios básicos del Estado liberal.
El gran manipulador
«El Franco real es el Franco de Preston.» Luís María Ansón El gran manipulador, un clásico de la bibliografía de Paul Preston que Debate recupera en una nueva edición revisada y ampliada, es una biografía concisa y accesible de Francisco Franco, cuya dictadura marcó gran parte del siglo XX español. Preston, quizá el mejor conocedor de este personaje histórico, nos ofrece una semblanza que deja al descubierto todas las facetas del dictador y lo presenta como una figura más compleja de lo que algunos quieren aceptar: un hombre lleno de ambición, totalmente obsesionado por controlar su propia imagen y muy consciente del poder de la propaganda. Reseñas: «Las vidas de Franco que traza Paul Preston revisten de la coloración de una novela negra, con la salvedad de que no se trata de literatura de ficción, sino de una miserable pero tristemente real historia.» Hilari Raguer
Sombras de mayo
El siglo XIX elevó la Guerra de la Independencia al rango de mito fundador de la nación española: el Dos de Mayo, el sitio de Zaragoza, la batalla de Bailén suenan todavía hoy como las hazañas de una gesta patriótica sin parangón. Esta interpretación tiene una historia: la sacralización de las guerras napoleónicas, en tanto que mito liberal, elaborado en los años 1830, conoció numerosos vaivenes, al paso de una historia política sobresaltada. ¿Qué lugar ocupa este mito en la vida política española del siglo XIX? A todas luces, el mito y las memorias de la Guerra de la Independencia, desde 1808 hasta la celebración del centenario, constituyen un verdadero hilo conductor que permite indagar en la arqueología del sentimiento nacional español y sus posteriores vicisitudes.
