Tony Claydon is Professor of Early Modern History at Bangor University, Wales. He is author of several books including, William III and the Godly Revolution; (with Ian McBride) ed., Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland c.1650-c.1850; William III: Profiles in Power; and Europe and the Making of England, 1660-1760. Charles-Édouard Levillain is Professor of History at the Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, France. A historian of early modern Britain and Europe, he works primarily on Anglo-Dutch politics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He is author of, Vaincre Louis XIV. Angleterre-Hollande-France. Histoire d'une relation tiangulaire (1665-1688) (Champ Vallon, 2010); and Un glaive pour un royaume. La querelle de la milice dans l’Angleterre du XVIIe siècle (Honoré Champion, 2014).
"""This volume teaches us that history is local (even in an international context) and that each player has a different agenda based on evolving foreign and domestic relations. For this reason, the importance of looking from the ""outside in"" is more than justified, and the authors deserve much credit in creating a rich volume of texts, one that should accompany studies of Louis XIV, as well as be required reading on the central role of image making by the regimes that governed Europe during the early modern period."" - Annmarie Sawkins, Milwaukee, Wisconsin"