Alan Milward

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Alan Steele Milward (born January 19, 1935 in Stoke-on-Trent , † September 28, 2010 ) was a British economic historian. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.

biography

Alan Steele Milward was born in Stoke-on-Trent on January 19, 1935. He grew up in simple circumstances, his father worked as a postal clerk. After grammar school he was able to study history at University College London thanks to a scholarship . He received his doctorate in 1960 from the London School of Economics on the German arms industry in World War II. For his research on European economic history, it was helpful that, in addition to his mother tongue, he also had a command of French, German, Italian and Norwegian.

When Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, he joined the Labor Party . After completing his doctorate, he briefly taught Indian archeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies. From 1960 he taught economic history at Edinburgh University. There he met his first wife Claudine Lemaître. From 1965 he taught social studies at East Anglia University's School. From 1969 he worked as a professor of economics at Stanford. From 1972 he worked as a professor for European studies at the European Studies University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. It was there that he met his future second wife, Frances Lynch. From 1983 to 1986 and from 1996 to 2003 he worked as professor for the history of European unification at the European University Institute in Florence. From 1986 to 1996 he was Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science .

Since it was founded in 1982, he has been a member of the EU Liaison Committee of Historians. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987. In 1993 he was appointed Official Historian of the Cabinet Office (United Kingdom) .

Selected Works

  • The German Economy at War (1965) (Ger. "The German War Economy 1939-1945", 1966)
  • The New Order and the French Economy (1970)
  • The Economic Effects of the Two World Wars on Britain (booklet) (1971; revised and republished 1984)
  • The Fascist Economy in Norway (1972)
  • War, Economy and Society, 1939-1945 (1977, republished 1987)
  • The Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945–51 (1984; republished 1987)
  • The European Rescue of the Nation-State (1992)
  • The Frontier of National Sovereignty: History and Theory, 1945–92 with Ruggero Ranieri and Frances MB Lynch (1994)
  • Britain's Place in the World: A Historical Inquiry into Import Controls 1945–60 (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) with George Brennan (1996)
  • Politics and Economics in the History of the European Union (The Graz Schumpeter Lectures) (2005, reprinted 2012)
  • The Rise and Fall of a National Strategy: The UK and The European Community : Volume 1 (2002, reprinted 2012)
  • The Economic Development of Continental Europe 1780–1870 with Berrick Saul (1973; reprinted 2012)
  • The Development of the Economies of Continental Europe 1850–1914 with Berrick Saul (1977; reprinted 2012)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The British Academy, Christine Brueland, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIII , 2014, pp. 353–355
  2. ^ The British Academy, Christine Brueland, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIII , 2014, pp. 355–357
  3. ^ Wilfried Loth: In memoriam Alan S. Milward . Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  4. ^ The British Academy, Christine Brueland, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIII , 2014, pp. 356–357
personal data
SURNAME Milward, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milward, Alan Steele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Stoke-on-Trent
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2010