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Book Synopsis
Examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995

Table of Contents

1. Perceptions and anxieties
2. Decline and fall of the civic tradition and civil society
3. Graft in Glasgow and Labour's ascendancy 1933–1968
4. Poulson and Smith
5. The fall of the house of Porter
Coda
Appendix
Chronology
Bibliography
Index

From Virtue to Venality

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 30 November 2013
      ISBN-13 9780719088728
      978-0719088728
      ISBN-10 719088720

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995

      Table of Contents

      1. Perceptions and anxieties
      2. Decline and fall of the civic tradition and civil society
      3. Graft in Glasgow and Labour's ascendancy 1933–1968
      4. Poulson and Smith
      5. The fall of the house of Porter
      Coda
      Appendix
      Chronology
      Bibliography
      Index

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