Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America

by Levack, Brian P.

• ISBN13: 9780198886358
• ISBN10: 0198886357
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-02-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Brian P. Levack, John E. Green Regents Professor Emeritus in History, University of Texas at Austin

Brian P. Levack is John E. Green Regents Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written widely on the legal, political, and religious history of early modern Europe. His books include The Civil Lawyers in England 1603-1641: A Political Study; The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1603-1707; The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, which has been translated into eight languages; Witch-hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics, and Religion; and The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Trust, Distrust, and History
2. John Locke and Trust in Government
3. Distrust of Legal Institutions
4. Distrust of Financial and Commercial Institutions
5. Distrust of Ecclesiastical Institutions
6. The Crisis of Institutional Trust, 1970-2020
Conclusion