From Pioneer Work to Refinement: Publication Trends

In the first issue of the Journal of European Integration History (JEIH), Alan S. Milward declared the coming of age of European integration history as a sub-field. Accordingly, it had developed into a ‘separate historiography’ (Milward 1995, 7). Milward also made far-reaching claims about the features and aims of such a new sub-field and the JEIH, which was to become one of its main outlets. The JEIH should mark ‘the beginning of a new period of research where history now has its own theories and a research agenda which derives from them’ (Milward 1995, 7).