Richard Bonney, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English historian
Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1947
Date of Death: 04-Aug-2017
Profession: historian
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Richard Bonney
- Richard Bonney (1947–4 August 2017) was an English historian and priest.
- He was appointed Lecturer in European History at the University of Reading in 1971 and Professor of Modern History at the University of Leicester in 1984, a post from which he retired in 2006.
- He was the founder of the Society for the Study of French History in the UK and the founding Editor of its Journal, 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.
- Bonner'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); 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.
- 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).
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