Making Toleration

Making Toleration
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 415
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ISBN-10 : 9780674075917
ISBN-13 : 0674075919
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Book Synopsis Making Toleration by : Scott Sowerby

Download or read book Making Toleration written by Scott Sowerby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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