Selected Publications
- Peter Itzen, Wo liegt das Königreich des Himmels? Der Streit um die politische Funktion des Glaubens in Großbritannien in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren, in: Aleksandra Lewicki et al. (eds.), Religiöse Gegenwartskultur. Zwischen Integration und Abgrenzung, Münster 2012, pp. 101-118.
- Peter Itzen, Streitbare Kirche. Die Church of England vor den Herausforderungen des Wandels 1945-1990, Baden-Baden 2012.
- Peter Itzen/Christian Müller (eds.), The Invention of Industrial Pasts. Heritage, political culture and economic debates in Great Britain and Germany, 1850-2010, Augsburg 2013.
- Peter Itzen/Christian Müller, Industrial Heritage in Late Modern Industrial Societies – Britain and Germany in a comparative perspective, in: idem (eds.), The Invention of Industrial Pasts. Heritage, political culture and economic debates in Great Britain and Germany, 1850-2010, Augsburg 2013, pp. 1-11.
- Peter Itzen, The Politics of De-Industrialisation: Industrial Regions, Political Allegiances and Electoral Systems in West Germany and the United Kingdom, in: idem (eds.), The Invention of Industrial Pasts. Heritage, political culture and economic debates in Great Britain and Germany, 1850-2010, Augsburg 2013, pp. 68-89.
FRIAS Project
Soldiers out of control: An entangled history of accidents in the French and German military, 1920-1970.
With the recent multiplication of Western military interventions, accidents during operations have raised awareness for the military’s vulnerability by non-combat events. Our historical research project proposes to shed light on accidents in the military as a continuous yet variable problem. By looking at the military – in peacetime and wartime – as one of the most relevant social institutions of the 20th century we put the history of accidents into a wider perspective. This project will study a specific social sphere, in which all kinds of accidents take place: the military.
Focusing on France and Germany in the crucial period from 1920 to 1970, we ask whether an entangled history provides a better explanatory framework for risk assessment than, for example, do the nation-state or an abstract vision.