Richard Bonney

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Richard Bonney (1947–4 August 2017)

French History, between 1987 and 2001.*[1]
He is Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques for services to French culture.

He was educated at Whitgift School in Croydon, Surrey.[3] Bonney's first degree was at Oxford. He submitted his D.Phil. on the intendants of Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin (1624-1661) in 1973, which was subsequently revised and published as Political Change in France under Richelieu and Mazarin, 1624-1661 by Oxford in 1978.

Numerous other publications on French history and European fiscal history followed. He published: The King’s Debts. Finance and Politics in France, 1589-1661 (1981); Society and Government in France under Richelieu and Mazarin, 1624-61 (1988); L’absolutisme (1989); The European Dynastic States, 1494-1660 (1991); [with M. M. Bonney] Jean-Roland Malet: premier historien des finances de la monarchie française (1993); (ed.) Economic Systems and State finance (1995; French edn. 1996); The Limits of Absolutism in ancien régime France (1995); (ed.) The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe, c.1200-1815 (1989); [with W.M. Ormrod and M.M. Bonney], Crises, Revolutions and Self-Sustained Growth. Essays in European fiscal history, 1130-1830 (1989); The Thirty Years’ War (2002); Harvest of Hatred. The Concerned Citizens' Tribunal Report on Gujarat (2002)[4][5] ;Three Giants of South Asia: Gandhi, Ambedkar and Jinnah on Self-Determination (New Delhi, 2004).

In 1997 he was ordained as a priest in the Church of England. His work on religious pluralism, and particularly his study on Jihad from Qur'an to Bin Laden (2004), has been frequently cited.[by whom?] In 2008 he published False Prophets. The Clash of Civilizations and the Global War against Terrorism and in 2009 The Nazi War on Christianity: the Kulturkampf Newsletters, 1936-1939. Together with Tridivesh Singh Maini and Tahir Malik, he published Warriors after War. Indian and Pakistani Retired Military Leaders Reflect on Relations between the Two Countries, Past, Present and Future (2011).

External links

  1. ^ "The Rev Richard Bonney obituary". The Guardian. 28 August 2017. Archived from the original on 9 March 2023.
  2. ^ Bonney
  3. ^ https://whitgiftianassociation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/OW-NEWS-2013-14.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ Bonney, Richard (2004). Harvest of Hatred. The Concerned Citizens' Tribunal Report on Gujarat, 2002. Media House (India).
  5. OCLC 52064103
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