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- catalog abstract "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 thorough 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 pursuit 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.".
- catalog contributor b9098138.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Economic conditions 1760-1860.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Economic policy.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1760-1820.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 19th century.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Background to the French Wars: Pittite Reform in the 1780s -- 3. The French Wars and the Failure of Pittite Reform -- 4. The 'Pitt System' and the Revival of Economical Reform, 1806-1815 -- 5. Liberal Toryism and Economical Reform, 1815-1830 -- 6. Economical Reform in the 'Decade' of Reform, 1830-1841 -- 7. Conservative Disinterestedness, 1841-1846.".
- catalog description "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 pursuit 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-298) and index.".
- catalog description "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 thorough 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.".
- catalog extent "vii, 307 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Waning of 'Old Corruption'.".
- catalog identifier "0198205767".
- catalog isFormatOf "Waning of 'Old Corruption'.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press,".
- catalog relation "Waning of 'Old Corruption'.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Economic conditions 1760-1860.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Economic policy.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1760-1820.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "941.07 20".
- catalog subject "Elite (Social sciences) Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Finance, Public Great Britain History 1688-1815.".
- catalog subject "Finance, Public Great Britain History 1815-1918.".
- catalog subject "HJ1013 .H33 1996".
- catalog subject "Political corruption Great Britain History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Background to the French Wars: Pittite Reform in the 1780s -- 3. The French Wars and the Failure of Pittite Reform -- 4. The 'Pitt System' and the Revival of Economical Reform, 1806-1815 -- 5. Liberal Toryism and Economical Reform, 1815-1830 -- 6. Economical Reform in the 'Decade' of Reform, 1830-1841 -- 7. Conservative Disinterestedness, 1841-1846.".
- catalog title "The waning of "old corruption" : the politics of economical reform in Britain, 1779-1846 / Philip Harling.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".