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Àííîòàöèÿ: William and Mary are perhaps the most under-rated British monarchs. Outside Northern Ireland (where William has become a — somewhat paradoxical — symbol of protestant resistance), the king has been largely forgotten by the general public, while Mary — if recognized at all — is known only as a constitutionally curious adjunct to her husband. Yet this royal pair ruled at a period of political transformation, and they were crucial to its surprising success. William and Mary succeeded because they showed skills of presentation, persuasion, and consensus-building which had been notably lacking in their Stuart predecessors. As we show, however, they honed these skills during their time in the Netherlands. It is therefore possible that England — if not Britain — was set on a path to greatness by the example of a foreign republic. Perhaps it has been reluctance to recognize this which has led William and Mary to be forgotten

Àííîòàöèÿ: Wide-ranging and original re-interpretation of English history and national identity during the vital century (1660-1760) in which the country emerged as the leading world power and developed its peculiarly free political culture. Disputing the insular and xenophobic image of the English in the period, and denying that this was an age of secularisation, Tony Claydon demonstrates instead the countrys active participation in a protestant international and its deep attachment to a European Christendom. He shows how these outward-looking identities shaped key developments by generating a profound sense of duty to Gods foreign faithful. The English built a world-beating state by intervening abroad to defend Christendom and the reformation, and their politics were forged as they debated different understandings of these international entities. England may have diverged from continental norms in this period but this book shows that it did so because of its intense religious engagement with that continent.