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Description and Holding Information
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Governance, Black Book (critique of var. imperial institutions), 1831
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The extraordinary black book; An exposition of the United Church of England and Ireland; Civil list and crown revenues; Incomes, privileges, and
power, of the aristocracy; Privy Council, diplomatic, and consular establishments; Law and judicial administration; Representation and prospects of reform
under the new ministry; Profits, influence, and monopoly of the Bank of India and East-India Company; With strictures on the renewal of their
charters; Debt and funding system; Salaries, fees, and emoluments in courts of justice, public offices, and colonies; Lists of pluralists, placement,
pensioners, and sinecurists; The whole corrected from the latest official returns, and presenting a complete view of the expenditure, patronange, influence,
and abuses of the government, in church, state, law, and representation; By the original editor: n.a., xx+576p, London, Effingham Wilson, 1831. (This
muckraking work set out to demonstrate that the the English Establishment of the time was rotten to the core in virtually all of its manifestations
and activities. Despite its sometime shrill tone, the book is a repository of an enormous number of useful facts. With particular reference to British
India, it provides on pp. 350-376 a comprehensive and in depth history of the British East India Company during its first 230 years. While, given its
source, the narrative dwells on the less savory aspects of Company rule in India, it neverless appears in the main to be factual and provides a host of
details difficult to unearth elsewhere.)
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Title:
The extraordinary black book : an exposition of the United Church of England and Ireland ; civil list and crown revenues ; incomes, privileges, and power, of the aristocracy ; Privy Council, diplomatic, and consular establishments ; law and judicial administration ; representation and prospects of reform under the new ministry ; profits, influence, and monopoly of the Bank of England and East-India Company, with strictures on the renewal of their charters ; debt and funding system ; salaries, fees and emoluments in Courts of Justice, public offices, and colonies ; lists of pluralists, placemen, pensioners, and sinecurists: the whole corrected from the latest official returns, and presenting a complete view of the expenditure, patronage, influence, and abuses of the government, in church, state, law, and representation / by the original editor.
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OCLC Number:
60726310
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Volume 1 | | Yes | Yes |
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