Vertriebene and pieds-noirs in postwar Germany and France : comparative perspectives

From the Back Cover After 1945 and 1962, Germany and France received millions of refugees and expellees from Middle and Eastern Europe and from North Africa. Bringing together leading international scholars from both fields, this volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' – the Germans from the East (Vertriebene) – with the most important case of decolonization migration – the French repatriates of Algeria (pieds-noirs). By shifting the focus away from the origins and forms to the aftermath of these two examples of mass migration, the book explores to which extent postwar Europe was shaped by the integration of migrants. How did this process impact on the definition of citizenship and the construction of the welfare state in postwar Germany and France? How did it alter the associational and political landscape of both countries? Which marks did it leave on the public memory of crucial chapters in their national histories? Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century. It addresses the crisis in the secularization thesis by foregrounding a nineteenth-century development called 'Secularism' – the particular movement and creed founded by George Jacob Holyoake from 1851 to 1852. Nineteenth-Century British Secularism rethinks and reevaluates the significance of Holyoake's Secularism, regarding it as a historic moment of modernity and granting it centrality as both a herald and exemplar for a new understanding of modern secularity. In addition to Secularism proper, the book treats several other moments of secular emergence in the nineteenth century, including Thomas Carlyle's 'natural supernaturalism', Richard Carlile's anti-theist science advocacy, Charles Lyell's uniformity principle in geology, Francis Newman's naturalized religion or 'primitive Christianity', and George Eliot's secularism and post-secularism. "Cover"--"Half-Title"--"Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Introduction: Secularity or the Post-Secular Condition" -- "1 Carlyle and Carlile: Late Romantic Skepticism and Early Radical Freethought" -- "2 Principles of Geology: A Secular Fissure in Scientific Knowledge" -- "3 Holyoake and Secularism: The Emergence of â#x80;#x98;Positiveâ#x80;#x99; Freethought" -- "4 Secularizing Science: Secularism and the Emergence of Scientific Naturalism" -- "5 The Three Newmans: A Triumvirate of Secularity" -- "6 George Eliot: The Secular Sublime, Post-Secularism, and â#x80;#x98;Secularizationâ#x80;#x99;" -- "Epilogue: Secularism as Modern Secularity" -- "Not es." Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in nineteenth century Britain. It argues that George Holyoake's Secularism represents a historic moment of modernity, a herald for understanding secularization and modern secularity This volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' - the German expellees from the East (Vertriebene) - with the most important case of decolonization migration - the French repatriates of Algeria (pieds-noirs).