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Title:

WILLIAM III

By:

A.M. Claydon

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ISBN 10:

0582405238

ISBN 13:

9780582405233

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

8 October, 2002

Series:

Profiles In Power

Pages:

224

Description:

It took a controversial monarch from outside Britain and Ireland to free the country from the chronic instability of Stuart Britain. This new portrait of William III tells us how and why.

Synopsis:

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.

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black & white illustrations

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Longman

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