Amaury de Riencourt | |
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| Born | 12 June 1918 Orléans, France |
| Died | 13 January 2005 (aged 86) Bellevue, Switzerland |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | College of Sorbonne University of Algiers |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Southeast Asian studies, South Asian studies, American studies, Tibetan studies, Chinese studies |
| Notable works | The Coming Caesars, The American Empire; Lost World: Tibet; The Eye of Shiva; The Soul of China; The Soul of India; Woman and Power in History; Sex and Power in History; Roof of the World: Tibet; A Child of the Century |
Amaury de Riencourt (born 12 June 1918 in Orléans, France; died 13 January 2005 at Bellevue, Switzerland)[1] was a writer and historian. He was an expert on Southeast Asia, an Indian scholar, a Sinologist, a Tibetologist, and an Americanist.[2][3]
De Riencourt's magnum opus was probably The Coming Caesars (1957), which explores the ethnic and ideological roots of America, Europe, and Russia, comparing classical times with the contemporary world (i.e., the 19th and 20th centuries).[citation needed]
- ^ Amaury de Riencourt
- ^ (in English) K. Natwar Singh, Forgotten Prophet, Outlook India
- ^ Amaury de Riencourt, India and Pakistan in the Shadow of Afghanistan, 1982/83, Foreign Affairs