Peter Itzen Livres

The beginning of the 20th century saw a reinterpretation of the concept of the accident. While accidents had traditionally been considered as inevitable, modern societies debated about their management and prevention. The emergence of the modern state led to an unprecedented capability to deal with accidents. The state formed institutions, practices and legal concepts that considerably changed everyday life. The contributions in this volume explore social, cultural, political, administrative and medical responses to accidents in modern states. The case studies include British, French, German, Italian, Chinese and Chilean experiences and thus provide different national perspectives on the governance of risks.

The essays in this volume trace the diverse uses of local and national industrial heritage cultures in an environment of changing European and worldwide industrial and economic settings. Our contributors illustrate how architects, intellectuals, politicians, and curators in Britain and Germany tried to preserve the heritage which was built and transformed over the last two centuries. The volume focusses on how life in industrial societies is remembered on political and general public levels, and how this memorial culture shapes everyday-life, forms new institutions and associations and informs political and social debates. The different perspectives which are combined in this volume aim to provide an introduction into the various fields and topics of industrial heritage within the broader research context of memory, identity and heritage studies in modern history.

Wie ändert sich das politische Selbstverständnis einer Kirche in einer modernen, offenen Gesellschaft, und welchen Einfluss kann sie noch ausüben? Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigt sich die Studie „Streitbare Kirche“ am Beispiel der Geschichte der Church of England nach 1945. Wie in vielen westlichen Ländern verlor das Christentum in Großbritannien nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg an Bedeutung. Doch der Church of England gelang es, sich diesen veränderten Bedingungen anzupassen und wichtige politische und gesellschaftliche Debatten zu beeinflussen. In den 1980er Jahren wurde sie schließlich zu einem der Hauptkontrahenten der konservativen Regierung Margaret Thatchers.