Pierre Milza

Pierre Milza
Pierre Milza
Born	16 April 1932; Paris, France
Died	28 February 2018; Saint-Malo, France
Nationality	French
Occupations	French Historian; *Professor Emeritus at the Paris Institute of Political Studies;
Known for	Author of the biographies of Napoleon III, Garibaldi, and Mussolini

Pierre Milza (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ milza]; 16 April 1932 – 28 February 2018) was a French historian. His work focused mainly on the history of Italy, the history of Italian immigration to France and the history of fascism, of which he was a recognized specialist.

He was professor emeritus at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), where he taught contemporary history. He also taught for a year at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Pierre Milza is notably the author of Voyage en Italie, or "History of Italy", as well as of biographies of Mussolini, Napoleon III and Garibaldi.

Early life

Milza was a second-generation Italian immigrant, born in Paris, France to Italian parents. His father, Olivier Milza, was born near Parma in Italy.^[1]^[2] His status as an immigrant motivated his studies in Italian history and Italian-French immigration. Milza first visited Italy at 16, learned Italian and began to study history.

Distinctions

Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters
1994: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
2008: Commander of the National Order of Merit
2013: Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (named Officer in 2000)^[3]

Milza was a member of the François Mitterrand Institute.

Publications

Throughout his career, Milza wrote many books about fascism and the history of Italy. In addition to these publications, Milza devoted time to writing biographies for different figures including Mussolini, Voltaire, Garibaldi and Napoleon III.^[4]

Independently

De Versailles à Berlin (1919–1945)^[5]
Fascisme français: passé et présent
Les Fascismes
Les relations internationales
- Volume I: De 1945 à 1973
- Volume II: De 1871 à 1914
Conversations Hitler-Mussolini^[6]
L’Italie fasciste devant l’opinion française
Français et Italiens à la fin du xix^e siècle (2 volumes)
Le Nouveau Désordre mondial
Voyage en Ritalie
Les Relations internationales de 1918 à 1939
Sources de la France au xx^e siècle
Mussolini
Verdi et son temps
L'Europe en chemise noire
Napoléon III
Histoire de l’Italie des origines à nos jours
Voltaire
L'Année terrible
- Volume I: La Guerre franco-prussienne, septembre 1870 - mars 1871
- Volume II: La Commune
Les Relations internationales de 1871 à 1914
Les Derniers Jours de Mussolini
Garibaldi
Pie XII

With Serge Berstein

Milza collaborated with fellow historian Serge Berstein to produce academic works and textbooks.^[4]

Le Fascisme italien, 1919-1945
Histoire de la France au XXe siècle
Histoire, les civilisations
L' Italia contemporaine, du Risorgimento à la chute du fascisme
L’Allemagne de 1870 à nos jours
Axes et méthodes de l’histoire politique
L’Italie fasciste
Histoire de la France au xx^e siècle(5 volume series)
L’Italie contemporaine. Des nationalistes aux Européens
L’Allemagne 1870-1991
Axes et méthodes de l’histoire politique
Histoire de l’Europe contemporaine
Dictionnaire historique des fascismes et du nazisme

Other collaborations

L'Immigration en France au 20e siècle (with Marianne Amar)
Le Nogent des Italiens (with Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard)
Le Fascisme au xx^e siècle (with Marianne Benteli)
Le Paris des étrangers depuis 1945 (with Antoine Marès)

References

^ Schor, Ralph. "Pierre Milza Voyage en Italie" [Pierre Milza Travel to Italy] (in French). Retrieved 27 March 2016.
^ "Pierre Milza, un Italien à Paris" [Pierre Milza, an Italian in Paris]. www.lhistoire.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 March 2018.
^ "Décret du 12 juillet 2013 portant promotion" [Decree of 12 July 2013 on the promotion] (in French). Légifrance. 14 July 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Pierre Milza, une histoire qui a marqué plusieurs générations" [Pierre Milza, a story that has marked several generations]. Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 March 2018.
^ "De Versailles à Berlin (1919-1945)" [From Versailles to Berlin (1919-1945)]. Armand Colin (in French). Retrieved 7 March 2018.
^ "Hitler et Mussolini: leurs conversations vues par Milza" [Hitler and Mussolini: their conversations seen by Milza]. FIGARO (in French). 13 February 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2018.