The Culture of Secrecy
Britain 1832-1998
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 7 January 1999
- ISBN 9780198203070
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages380 pages
- Size 242x162x25 mm
- Weight 681 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The first comprehensive study of the history behind the restriction of official information in Britain since 1832 Provides the full historical context for current controversies over freedom of information Capitalises on media interest in the White Paper 'Your Right to Know:The Government's Proposals for a Freedom of Information Act', presented to parliament in December 1997 but controversially, not yet made law. This is the first, comprehensive study of secrecy in modern British history. Professor Vincent examines how and why secrets have been kept, and how systems of control have been constructed - and challenged - over the past hundred and sixty years. It is the only book to to place current controversies over freedom of information in the context of the development of the liberal state since 1832.
MoreLong description:
The Culture of Secrecy is the first comprehensive study of the restriction of official information in modern British history. It seeks to understand why secrets have been kept, and how systems of control have been constructed - and challenged - over the past hundred and sixty years. The author transcends the conventional boundaries of political or social history in his wide-ranging diagnosis of the `British disease' - the legal forms and habits of mind which together have constituted the national tradition of discreet reserve. The chapters range across bureaucrats and ballots, gossip and gay rights, doctors and dole investigators in their exploration of the ethical basis of power in the public, professional, commercial and domestic spheres. Professor Vincent examines concepts such as privacy and confidentiality, honour and integrity, openness and freedom of expression, which have served as benchmarks in the development of the liberal state and society.
This is the best book ever written on the history of official secrecy in Britian ... it ranges much wider than the Whitehall machine and investigates secrecy in other areas of British public life. It is this aspect of David Vincent's work that provides a range of perspective that is so often missing from other accounts of secrecy.
Table of Contents:
Bibliography
Index
The Problem of Secrecy
Honourable Secrecy 1832-1870
The Road to Regulation, 1870-1911
Public Knowledge, 1911-1945
Citizenship and Secrecy, 1945-1972
Secrecy and Reform, 1972-1989
The British Way
Afterword
