William D. Irvine (1944 – 14 May 2021) was a Canadian historian who was Professor Emeritus of History at

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

. Irvine was born in 1944 in

British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...

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. He received his

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degree in 1965 from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

and

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from

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in 1971. Irvine began his teaching career at York University in 1971 at the Glendon campus before moving to the

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where he taught until his retirement in 2011. He was a specialist in

French history The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul. The first writings on indigenous populations mainly start in the first century BC. Greek ...

, particularly French conservatism and the right. As an author, he has largely been collected by libraries. Irvine died on May 14, 2021, after a battle with cancer.

Books

*''French Conservatism in Crisis: The Republican Federation of France in the 1930s''; Louisiana State University Press (1979). *''The Boulanger Affair Reconsidered: Royalism, Boulangism, and the Origins of the Radical Right in France''; Oxford University Press (1989). *''Between Justice and Politics: The Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, 1898-1945''; Stanford University Press (2006).

References

External links

York University profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Irvine, William D. Living people 1944 births 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian people of Irish descent Academic staff of York University University of British Columbia alumni Princeton University alumni 21st-century Canadian historians