02337nam 22004813u 450 991045031330332120210107020928.0(CKB)1000000000248902(EBL)168175(OCoLC)475875542(MiAaPQ)EBC168175(EXLCZ)99100000000024890220130418d2004|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England[electronic resource]Hoboken Taylor and Francis20041 online resource (334 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-17831-4 0-415-09368-6 Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction The fountain of favor; The language of patronage: a discourse of connection; The structures of patronage and corruption: access and allocation; Court patronage networks; Court connections and county associations: the case of Buckinghamshire; Corruption and early modern administration: the case of the navy; Corruption and the economy; Corruption and political ideology; The language of corruption: a discourse of political conflict; Conclusion; Notes; Selected bibliography; IndexThis wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questions about the patronage that structured early modern society, arguing that the increase in royal bounty in the early seventeenth century redefined the corrupt practices that characterized early modern administration.Great Britain - Politics and government - 1603-164HistoryPatronage, PoliticalPolitical corruptionElectronic books.Great Britain - Politics and government - 1603-164.History.Patronage, Political.Political corruption.306.2/0941/09032306.20942942.06Levy Peck Linda691054AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910450313303321Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England1978245UNINA