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The reign of King William I, as the restored prince of Orange was now called, was one of the most critical periods in the history of the Netherlands. During this quarter-century the adaptation of the country to the conditions and requirements of modernity moved in a complex and even contradictory way, guided by a monarch who in his economic policy was far more forward-looking than most of his fellow citizens but who in politics resisted the expansion of Parliament and the introduction of liberal principles. He was a 19th-century version of the “enlightened despot,” a man intent upon power not ...(100 of 24002 words)