The Stuarts
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. xii, [2], 358, [2] pages. Cover has wear, soiling, and material stuck to the front cover. Small black and white portrait illustrations of the six Stuart Sovereigns of England on the frontispiece. Twenty full page portraits in the text. The book contains an appendix on the death of James II and William III, as well as a genealogical table of the Stuart Kings of England, and an index. Petrie was known for his interest in royalism and Jacobitism. Several of Petrie's books deal with Charles I's government, towards which he was broadly sympathetic. He published biographies of Lord Bolingbroke, of the early-20th-century British cabinet minister Walter Long, and of three Spanish kings: Philip II, Charles III, and Alfonso XIII. Another biography of his dealt with a fourth notable Spaniard: Philip II's half-brother Don John of Austria. He was a member of the Jacobite Royal Stuart Society. This book focuses on how the subjects of the Stuarts were affected by, and how they regarded, the chief events of their day. The Stuarts were the first kings of the United Kingdom. King James VI of Scotland became also King James I of England, thus combining the two thrones for the first time. The Stuart dynasty reigned in England and Scotland from 1603 to 1714, a period which saw a flourishing Court culture but also much upheaval and instability, of plague, fire and war. It was an age of intense religious debate and radical politics. Both contributed to a civil war in the mid-seventeenth century between Crown and Parliament (the Cavaliers and the Roundheads), resulting in a victory for Oliver Cromwell and the dramatic execution of King Charles I. There was a short-lived republic. The Restoration of the Crown was soon followed by another 'Glorious' Revolution. William and Mary of Orange ascended the throne as joint monarchs and defenders of Protestantism, followed by Queen Anne, the second of James II's daughters. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: England, Stuart Kings, James II, William III, Duke of Buckingham, Oliver Cromwell, Charles I, Charles II, Parliament, Scotland, Jacobite
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