Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America , by Brian P. Levack, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 204 pp., £36.71 (hardback), ISBN 9780192847409, £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780198886357

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsBen GildingBen Gilding (ben.gilding@history.ox.ac.uk) is a junior research fellow at New College, Oxford. His PhD dissertation examined the British State’s attempts to reform the East India Company between 1773 and 1784. He has published several articles on the intersections between domestic and imperial politics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and its empire and is currently reworking his dissertation into a monograph entitled Sovereign Merchants: East India Company Reform and the Transformation of the British Empire, 1757–1784.