| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Texts -- Preface -- Note on Sources and Method -- Acknowledgments -- Historical Introduction -- Chapter 1. The First World War and Its Impact, 1914-1921 -- Chapter 2. Science Meets Politics: The Relativity Revolution, 1918-1923 -- Chapter 3. Anti-Semitism and Zionism, 1919-1930 -- Chapter 4. Internationalism and European Security, 1922-1932 -- Chapter 5. Articles of Faith, 1930-1933 -- Chapter 6. Hitler's Germany and the Threat to European Jewry, 1933-1938 -- Chapter 7. The Fate of the Jews, 1939-1949 |
|
Chapter 8. The Second World War, Nuclear Weapons, and World Peace, 1939-1950 -- Chapter 9. Soviet Russia, Political Economy, and Socialism, 1918-1952 -- Chapter 10. Political Freedom and the Threat of Nuclear War, 1931-1955 -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
The most famous scientist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein was also one of the century's most outspoken political activists. Deeply engaged with the events of his tumultuous times, from the two world wars and the Holocaust, to the atomic bomb and the Cold War, to the effort to establish a Jewish homeland, Einstein was a remarkably prolific political writer, someone who took courageous and often unpopular stands against nationalism, militarism, anti-Semitism, racism, and McCarthyism. In Einstein on Politics, leading Einstein scholars David Rowe and Robert Schulmann gather Einstein's m |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Political and social views
|
|
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Ethics
|
|
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Religion
|
| SUBJECT |
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 fast |
| Subject |
SCIENCE -- Energy.
|
|
SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
|
|
SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
|
|
Ethics
|
|
Political and social views
|
|
Religion
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Rowe, David E., 1950- editor.
|
|
Schulmann, Robert J., editor
|
| ISBN |
9781400848287 |
|
1400848288 |
|
1299782299 |
|
9781299782297 |
|
