The Culture of Secrecy: Britain, 1832-1998Oxford University Press, 1998 - 364 pages This is the first, comprehensive study of secrecy in modern British history. Professor Vincent examines how and why secrets have been kept, and how systems of control have been constructed - and challenged - over the past hundred and sixty years. It is the only book to place current controversies over freedom of information in the context of the development of the liberal state since 1832. |
Table des matières
The Problem of Secrecy 1190 | 18 |
Honourable Secrecy 18321870 | 26 |
The Road to Regulation 18701911 | 78 |
Public Knowledge 19111945 | 132 |
Citizenship and Secrecy 19451972 | 186 |
Secrecy and Reform 19721989 | 248 |
The British Way | 311 |
| 329 | |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Administration affairs anonymity argued Asquith Attlee authority became behaviour Bill British British Civil Service bureaucracy Cabinet campaign Charity Organisation Society citizens civil servants Civil Service clients Cmnd conduct confidence confidentiality constitutional critical debate decades defence democracy disclosure doctors domestic England espionage established Foreign formal Freedom of Information gentleman Georg Simmel growing Hansard Hennessy History Home Secretary honour House Ibid increasingly individual inquiry issue knowledge Labour legislation letters liberal London Lord Margaret Thatcher Marie Stopes Mazzini Medical Ethics ment Minister modern nineteenth century Northcote-Trevelyan Report Official Secrets Act open government Oxford Parliament Parliamentary Party Patent political poor practice problem profession professional protection records reform Report responsibility Review Secretary Security Service Select Committee Series Sir James Graham social workers society Spycatcher Stopes tion trade tradition trust Venetia Stanley Victorian Vincent welfare Whitehall