Yves Benot

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Yves Benot ; Bourgeois Edouard Helman (*  December 23, 1920 †  January 3, 2005 ) was a French historian, slavery and colonialism researcher and journalist.

Life

The son of a Jewish family of doctors in Seine-et-Marne, who had immigrated from Romania before the First World War , was forced to flee to England during the German occupation of France. His parents were deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and murdered; he survived. Since he had a comprehensive literary education and good language skills in English and Italian, he embarked on a career as a scholar and journalist.

First he was a professor in Morocco from 1951 to 1952, then back to Paris, working for the newspapers Ce Soir and Lettres françaises (1953-1956) published by the writer Louis Aragon . He then went to the French colonies known as the overseas departments, to Conakry from 1959 to 1962, and later to Ghana , where he was director of the Ghana Institute of Languages from 1962 to 1964. From this time personal friendships with a number of African intellectuals arose, for example the later Minister of Culture of Benin , Paulin Houtondji and the historian of the University of Dakar, Boubacar Barry .

The decolonization and independence movements of the time found in him a chronicler and analyst. On this topic he first presented Idéologies des indépendances africaines in 1969 and Indépendances africaines in 1975 . Idéologies et réalités . In between he published a study on Denis Diderot , Diderot, de l'athéisme à l'anticolonialisme .

In addition to numerous other books, he published many specialist articles, for example in magazines such as Dix-huitième siècle , Les Annales historiques de la Révolution française or Les Cahiers des Anneaux de la Mémoire .

To this day he is one of the most famous historians of modern European expansion.

Fonts (selection)

  • La modernité de l'esclavage. Essai sur la servitude au coeur du capitalisme Éditions la Découverte, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7071-3754-5 .
  • La Guyane sous la Revolution. Ou l'impasse de la révolution pacifique. Ibis rouge Éditions, Kourou 1997, ISBN 2-911390-25-3 .
  • Massacres coloniaux. 1944-1950. La IVe République et la mise au pas des colonies francaises. Éditions la Découverte, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-7071-2345-5 .
  • La démence coloniale sous Napoléon. Essai. Éditions la Découverte, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-7071-2098-7 .
  • Les parlementaires africains a Paris. 1914-1958. = Les Députés africains au Palais Bourbon de 1914 à 1958 (= Afrique contemporaine. 4). Éditions Chaka, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-907768-03-4 .
  • Indépendances africaines. Idéologies et réalités (= Petite Collection Maspero. 147-148). 2 volumes. Maspero, Paris 1975, ISBN 2-7071-0763-8 (vol. 1), ISBN 2-7071-0764-6 (vol. 2).
  • Diderot, de l'athéisme à l'anticolonialisme. Maspero, Paris 1970.
  • Idéologies des indépendances africaines (= Cahiers Libres. 139/140, ISSN  0526-8370 ). Maspero, Paris 1969, ((= Cahiers Libres. 234/235). 2e édition augmentée. Ibid 1972).

See also

Massacres of Sétif , Albert Memmi , Pierre Bourdieu , Frantz Fanon

personal data
SURNAME Benot, Yves
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helman, Edouard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian, slavery and colonialism researcher and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1920
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2005