William Iii (Profiles In Power)

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.

• • Author: A. M. Claydon
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: May 11, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 224 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138146447
• • ISBN-13: 9781138146440