Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era

Introduction: Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era: Towards a Global Perspective.-

PART I. Corruption and Narratives of Imperial Decline and Reform during the Age of Revolutions, c. 1800.
Reflections of an Early-Modern Historian on the Modern History of Corruption and Empire.
Corruption, Empire and State-Building: An Entangled History of the British and French “Imperial Nation States” and Hyderabad, c.1760 to 1800.
The East India Company and the Regulation of Corruption in Early-Nineteenth-Century India.
Corrupt and Rapacious: Colonial Spanish-American past through the Eyes of Early-Nineteent
Century Contemporaries. A Contribution from the History of Emotions.
Bribery in Baroda: The Politics of Corruption in Nineteenth-Century India.

PART II. Civilizing Missions and “Oriental” Corruption during the Age of Modern Imperialism, c. 1900.
Colonial Normativity? Corruption in the Dutch-Indonesian Relationship in the Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Centuries.
Land, State and Favour in Colonial Algeria. Why the Bruat Case (1877) did not become a Scandal.-
“There’s nothing like having good influence in Madrid!”. Fraud and Immorality in Cuba, the “Pearl of the Antilles”.
“Putting an end to the Slander that Stains Everything”. Víctor Balaguer and Anticorruption Strategies in Late-Nineteenth-Century Cuba.
Paperwork as Commodity, Corruption as Accumulation. Land Records and Licences in Colonial Myanmar, c.1900.
The Entrenchment of Corruption in a Colonial Context: the Case of the Philippines c.1900.
Conclusions: Colonial and Corruption History: Future Research Perspectives.