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Zwischen Historisierung und Globalisierung: Titel, Themen und Trends der neueren Empire-Forschung
(2011)
The following article examines recent publications on empires and imperial history in world history, covering general overviews, comparative studies and monographs on individual cases. As a preliminary result of a general expansion of empire-studies – diachronically, with regard to different historical spaces and thematically – the authors identify a danger of inflating the concept and thereby weakening its analytical strength. Furthermore, a growing gulf between macro-perspectives and panoramas on the one hand and mikro-analyses on the other makes it difficult to achieve a suitable framework for precise research on empires. The article therefore argues in favour of a meso level, as the comparative view on the complex relation between empires and nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth century can illustrate.
Rechtzeitig zu Weihnachten 2008 wetterten kirchliche Würdenträger beider Konfessionen im Zusammenhang mit der Finanzkrise massiv gegen die „gnadenlose Religion des Marktes und Konsums“. Auf protestantischer Seite verdammte der damalige EKD-Ratsvorsitzende Wolfgang Huber Raffsucht als „Tanz ums goldene Kalb“ und hielt dem Chef der Deutschen Bank, Josef Ackermann, eine „Form des Götzendienstes“ vor. Huber, dessen Kirche genau wie ihr katholisches Pendant selbst im schlagartig verrufenen Aktien- und Wertpapiergeschäft investiert hat, bettete seine Kritik an den Symptomen der Finanzkrise in der Hoffnung auf öffentliche Zustimmungsbereitschaft bewusst in religiöse Semantik.
Auch aus der katholisch en Kirche meldete sich vermehrt religiös untermauerte Kapitalismuskritik und sogar Marxsche Kapitalismuskritik, obgleich diese mit dem Vornamen Reinhard statt Karl verbunden ist.
„At the age of seventy, no one is allowed to feel old.“ - Discourses and images of old age in the welfare policy of Nazi Germany. Social policies of Nazi Germany aimed directly at cutting expenses for pensions and other social security benefits for old people. In order to reduce social costs, the age of retirement was supposed to be increased through various policies. In the field of scientific research, scientist of gerontology, industrial science and medicine delineated projects that promised to conserve work ability into a much older age. The declared goal was to make people work much longer than established retirement ages suggested. Especially during the war, new social policies increased the pressure put on older workers to postpone retirement or even to resume employment.