Foreword: A commentary on corruption and control from the perspective of the Cultures of Vigilance Introduction. Corruption and the Modernisation of the State. A short introduction to a long-term process (1600-1900)
Part1: Blurred Lines: Conceptualising corruption in the early modern era and beyond
1. Defining Corruption in the Holy Roman Empire: The Gulich Revolt in Cologne and its Monument to Social Deviance
2. The Pietist Campaign against Corruption 1660-1700
3. The Perception of Corruption in Croatian Public Service in 17th and 18th Centuries: Tradition and Reform
4. Conceptualising Corruption as a Systemic Issue
Part2: From Vigilance to Scandal. Performing Corruption and Anti-corruption
5. How to harmonise republican and social norms in an aristocracy? Election and corruption in the Republic of Venice (1500-1797)
6. Wielding a Many-Edged Sword: Constitutional Struggle, Political Modernisation, and the Ambiguity of Corruption Rhetoric in Early Modern Wurttemberg
7. A Complicit State? Discourses around Corruption and the Role of the State within the Context of Modern Colonial Empires: the Case of the Dutch Empire, c. 1850-1880s
8. “To new revolutions”: vigilance, mistrust and corruption in France under the July Monarchy (1830-1848)
9. Gratifying Candidates and Rewarding Voters in the Early Twentieth Century Romania: Electoral Practices and Strategies
Part3: The Divergent Routes towards Modernity
10. Time, Context and Language in the Analysis of Corruption in the Early Modern Period
11. Native Litigation, Contraband Trade, and a Corrupt Custiodian of Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1704-1721
12. The Naturalisation of Political Corruption in Spanish Literature: the Generation of 1868
13. A national culture of corruption? Spain in transnational perspective (18th-19th Centuries)
14. Hopeless corruption? Negotiating modernity in Wallachia and Moldavia in the 1830s
15. Some Theses on the History of Corruption in the Modern Era