Alan S. Milward and a Century of European Change (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)

The main purpose of the book is to introduce the work of Alan S. Milward and to acknowledge the full magnitude of his scientific contribution to contemporary British and European history. The book is a collection of essays which provide a better understanding of Alan Milward’s extensive intellectual work for future scholars and facilitate the knowledge and transmission of his published work to present and future generations of students, scholars in the various disciplines concerned, and the general public. The series of original contributions which this book contains are related to or reflect critically upon Milward’s own contributions to the fields of political, diplomatic, and socio-economic history, political science, economics, international relations, and European Studies in general. This book honors Alan Milward through a better understanding of his many pioneering contributions in the fields of contemporary European history in general, and the history of European integration in particular. Although the volume does not aim to be a substitute for Milward’s work itself, it illuminates and assesses his creative process along fifty years of continued and intense work, as well as the impact of his main work, and the continuing relevance of his main theses today.

Fernando Guirao is Jean Monnet Professor of History at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of European Integration History and of the European Union Liaison Committee of Historians, and author of Spain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945-57. Challenge and Response (1998).

Frances M.B. Lynch is a Reader in French Studies at the University of Westminster. She is author of Alan S. Milward et al The Frontier of National Sovereignty. History and Theory, 1945-1992 (London, Routledge, 1993) and France and the International Economy From Vichy to the Treaty of Rome (London, Routledge, 1997).

Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez is FECYT Researcher at the Institute of Economic History, Università Bocconi Milan, Scientific fellow at the Center for European Contemporary History at the Catholic University Louvain (UCL), and secretary of the GERPISA international network, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS-Cachan). He is finishing the monograph "Multinational Corporations and the State in the History of European Integration: The Automobile Industry from Fascism to the Treaty of Rome (1939-1958)".