- Robert Bonnaud
Robert Bonnaud (born in 1929 in
Marseilles ,France ) is ananti-colonialist historian and professor of history at the Paris VII Jussieu University.In 1957, following the advice of his friend
Pierre Vidal-Naquet , he published in "Esprit" an article entitled "La Paix des Nementchas" ("Nementchas’ Peace"), where he denounced he witnessed made by theFrench army inAlgeria , on the 25th and 26th of October 1956. In June 1961, he was arrested and jailed in Marseilles' prison des Baumettes as a supporter of the Algerian nationalists of the FLN; Hargreaves [citation|last=Hargreaves|first=Alec G.|title=Memory, Empire, And Postcolonialism: Legacies of French Colonialism|page=118|publisher=Lexington Books|year=2005|isbn=0739108212.] calls him "the leader of theJeanson network in the Marseilles region". He was released in June 1962, two months after theEvian agreements and the proclamation of Algeria's independence.He dedicated his life to the study of
universal history , and has been presented as a "meta-historian", a "philosopher of history", a theorist of the evolution of thenoosphere . [citation|last=Anchor|first=Robert|title=Le Systeme de l'Histoire by Robert Bonnaud|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=96|issue=3|year=1991|pages=822–823|doi=10.2307/2162434.]References
Additional reading
*An interview in "Vacarme" (2001) [http://www.vacarme.eu.org/article79.html]
*Pierre Vidal-Naquet, "Mémoires", Paris : Seuil, 1995
Bibliography
*"Victoires sur le temps. Essais comparatistes. Polybe le Grec et Siman Qian le Chinois", Condeixa : La Ligne d'ombre [http://www.lignedombre.com] , 2007, ISBN 978-2-9528603-1-4
*"La Cause du Sud - L'Algérie d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, la Palestine, les nations… Ecrits politiques 1956-2000", Paris : L'Harmattan, 2001, ISBN 2-7475-0200-7.
*"Histoire et historiens de 1900 à nos jours : l'histoire nouvelle. Au-delà de l'histoire", Paris : Kimé, 2001 (review in "Cairn" [http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_REVUE=MOUV&ID_NUMPUBLIE=MOUV_019&ID_ARTICLE=MOUV_019_0178]
*"Tournants et périodes ; essai sur les durées historiques et les années récentes", Kimé, Paris, 2000.
*"L'Histoire, le progrès, le communisme. Théories et confidences", Paris : Kimé, 1997.
*"Et pourtant elle tourne !", Paris : Kimé, 1995.
*"La morale et la raison", Paris : Kimé, 1994.
*"Les Succès de l'échec. Où va l'histoire?", Paris : Arcantère, 1993.
*"Les Alternances du progrès. I Une histoire sans préférences", Paris : Kimé, 1992.
*"Le Système de l'histoire", Paris : Fayard, 1989.
*"Les Tournants du XXe siècle - Progrès et régressions", Paris : L'Harmattan, ISBN 2-7384-1444-3.External links
*worldcat id|lccn-n85-301046
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