Author: Scott Sowerby

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0674075919

Though James II is often depicted as a Catholic despot who imposed his faith, Scott Sowerby reveals a king ahead of his time who pressed for religious toleration at the expense of his throne. The Glorious Revolution was in fact a conservative counter-revolution against the movement for enlightened reform that James himself encouraged and sustained.