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Corruption: Ethics and Power in Florence, 1600-1770
by Jean-Claude Waquet
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0271008105
- ISBN 13
- 9780271008103
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About This Item
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fine. Very light pencil markings to margins of about 15 pages, no text obscured, and otherwise clean and bright. In this elegant and original book, Jean-Claude Waquet examines the problem of corruption in early modern Europe. Defining corruption to include both embezzlement of public funds by officials and their taking presents in return for favors rendered, he seeks to explain why it was pervasive in the early modern state, using as his case study the military and civil administration of Florence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 234 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9780271008103. Inventory No: dscf8741. . 9780271008103
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- Bookseller
- Denton Island Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- dscf8741
- Title
- Corruption: Ethics and Power in Florence, 1600-1770
- Author
- Jean-Claude Waquet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0271008105
- ISBN 13
- 9780271008103
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Place of Publication
- University Park, Pa
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- BZDB229 History; Corruption Ethics and Power in Florence 16001770 JeanClaude Waquet
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