UID:
almahu_9949253469702882
Format:
1 online resource (204 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780191939747 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
Distrust of public institutions, which reached critical proportions in Britain and the United States in the first two decades of the 21st 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 than trust in one's family, friends, and neighbours, because the vast majority of the populace do not personally know the officials who run large national institutions. Institutional distrust shaped the political, legal, economic, and religious history of England, Scotland, and the British colonies in America.
Note:
This edition also issued in print: 2022.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780192847409
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
