Doyle, William, 1942-
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- ספר: המהפכה הצרפתית, 2006.
- His The Parlement of Bordeaux and the end of the old regime, 1974.
- nuc90-39590: The Impact of the French Revolution ... 1989(hdg. on CaBVaU rept.: Doyle, W.; usage: W. Doyle)
- Marquis who's who on the Web, Jan. 5, 2011(William Doyle, historian, educator; b. Burton Agnes, Yorkshire, England, Mar. 4, 1942; DPhil, Oriel College, Oxford, 1968; prof. of history, Univ. of Bristol, England, 1986- ; author of: The Parlement of Bordeaux (1974), Old European order (1978), Origins of the French Revolution (1980), Oxford history of the French Revolution (1989), Officers, nobles & revolutionaries (1995), Venality : the sale of offices in the Eighteenth Century France (1996), Jansenism (1999), La Vénalité (2000), The French Revolution : a very short introduction (2001))
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William Doyle (born 1942) is a British historian, specialising in 18th-century France, who is most notable for his one-volume Oxford History of the French Revolution (1st edition, 1989; 2nd edition, 2002; 3rd edition, 2018). He is one of the leading revisionist historians of the French Revolution, obtaining his doctorate from the University of Oxford with a thesis entitled The parlementaires of Bordeaux at the end of the eighteenth century, 1775–1790. He is also professor emeritus of history at Bristol University, a fellow of the British Academy and a trustee of The Society for the Study of French History.
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