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William Doyle FBA is Emeritus Professor of History at Bristol University, a fellow of the British Academy and a trustee of the Society of French History. His publications include The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction; The Oxford History of the French Revolution; Origins of the French Revolution; Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction; Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution; The Old European Order 1660-1800; Old Regime France 1648-1788; The Ancien Regime; The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Regime and Officers, Nobles and Revolutionaries.
"""This book reveals the ever fertile mind of Bill Doyle in all its many facets, from the carefully researched, intricate minutiae of venality and finance in Ancien Regime France, to the grand sweep of the fall of monarchies and the roots of revolution across the western world in the Age of Revolutions. There is a fresh insight and a refreshing dash of much needed iconoclasm, on every page. Doyle is a scholar who continues to provoke, instruct and inspire, in prose as sparkling and clear as a vintage Champagne."" -Michael Broers, Professor of Western European History, University of Oxford. ""Here is William Doyle at his finest. In this book, distilling his most recent research, this master historian of the Old Regime and French Revolution explores key issues in the collapse, and rebuilding of French state and society from Louis XIV through Napoleon. In typical Doyle fashion, the chapters emphasize contingency, complexity, and continuity By steering clear of determinisms and refusing to treat the French Revolution as inevitable, Doyle makes palpable the sense of possibility that infused those heady times."" - Rafe Blaufarb, Professor of History and Director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, Florida State University."
