Reflections of an Early Modern Historian on the Modern History of Corruption and Empire

  1. Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé 1
  1. 1 Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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    Universidad Pablo de Olavide

    Sevilla, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02z749649

Livre:
Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era. A Global Perspective

Éditorial: Palgrave Macmillan

ISSN: 2662-7965,  2662-7973

ISBN: 9789811602542,  9789811602559

Année de publication: 2021

Pages: 23-43

Type: Chapitre d'ouvrage

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0255-9_2 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Objectifs de Développement Durable

Résumé

This chapter seeks to cast some light on the nature of corruption in the modern empires, through the analysis of the same phenomenon in the early-modern period. While scholars have recently emphasised that the 1800s marked a watershed in the nature (and perception) of corruption, a glimpse at the early-modern period provides a more nuanced picture with valuable heuristic insights. The early-modern Spanish empire serves as a good case in point: traditionally seen as one of the most corrupt empires of the period, it is argued that—in reality—all empires encountered the same phenomenon in one form or another. Accusations of fraud and dishonesty often revealed the complex and negotiated nature of power, and forced all empires to design new measures to cope with the challenge of geographic distance, the existence of different normative codes and the logics of informal rule.

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