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The chapter examines the long history of Britain’s Empire and how the purpose of empire transformed over time and how the British state sought to control corruption in its colonial possessions.
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Jones, P. (2023). Empire: From Corrupt Extraction to Civilising Mission c. 1757–1936. In: Corrupt Britain. Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36934-6_8
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