William III, William of Orange (1650-1702), is a key figure in English history. Grandson of Charles I and married to Mary, eldest daughter of James II, the pair became the object of protestant hopes after James lost the throne. Though William was personally unpopular - his continental ties the source of suspicion and resentment - Tony Claydon argues that William was key to solving the chronic instability of seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland. It took someone with a European vision and foreign experience of handling a free political system, to end the stand-off between ruler and people that had marred Stuart history. Claydon takes a thematic approach to investigate all these aspects in their wider context, and presents William as the crucial factor in Britain's emergence as a world power, and as a model of open and participatory government.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781138146440
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-138-14644-0
- Verlag: CRC Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 11.05.2016
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
- Serie: Profiles In Power
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 408 g
- Seiten: 224
- Format (B x H x T): 140 x 216 x 14 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt