The Waning of `Old Corruption'
The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779-1846
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 21 March 1996
- ISBN 9780198205760
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 225x143x23 mm
- Weight 539 g
- Language English
- Illustrations tables 0
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Short description:
There is as yet no thorough explanation for the persistence of the political authority of a narrow and mostly landed élite throughout nineteenth-century Britain. This book addresses this gap in the historical record and provides an important part of that explanation. Philip Harling argues that the mostly Pittite governing élite managed to allay widespread suspicions of political favouritism and corruption by reducing and redistributing the tax load and by cutting down on the advantages available to privileged insiders.
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Most historians of Britain now take for granted that a narrow and mostly landed elite managed to retain its social supremacy throughout much of the nineteenth century. But as yet, there is no throrough explanation for the persistence of the old elite's political authority in an age when that authority was seriously questioned by many Britons. In this original study, Philip Harling furnishes an important part of this explanation.
He argues that the mostly Pittite governing elite helped to allay the suspicions of parasitism at the root of the familiar critique of 'Old Corruption' by responding to intense pressure to sanitize government. They did this by reducing and redistributing the tax burden; by eliminating serious administrative abuses such as the grant of lucrative sinecures and unmerited pensions; and by ostentatiously dedicating themselves to public business rather than the pursit of wasteful privileges for themselves and their hangers-on. If the frugal, liberal state that partly resulted from these reforms was scarcely capable of ameliorating social injustice, at least it could no longer be seen to contribute to it through favouritism and a heavy and inequitable tax load. Such a state was well-suited for the preservation of a narrow ruling elite.
Philip Harling's important book is ... timely ... excellent study which will take its place as the point of departure for future work on the subject.
