Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America

by Prof Brian P. Levack

Distrust of public institutions, which reached critical proportions in Britain and the United States in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, was an important theme of public discourse in Britain and colonial America during the early modern period. Demonstrating broad chronological and thematic range, the historian Brian P. Levack explains that trust in public institutions is more tenuous and difficult to restore once it has been betrayed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198886357
• ISBN13: 9780198886358
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"