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Einstein and twentieth-century politics : 'a salutary moral influence' / Richard Crockatt.
LIBRA QC16.E5 C76 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crockatt, Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955--Political and social views.
- Einstein, Albert.
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955--Influence.
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955--Friends and associates.
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955--Quotations.
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
- Physics--History--20th century.
- Physics.
- History.
- Physicists--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Friends and associates.
- Political and social views.
- Genre:
- Quotations.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 236 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Albert Einstein, world-renowned as a physicist, was also publicly committed to radical political views. Despite the vast literature on Einstein, this is the first comprehensive study of his politics, covering his opinions and campaigns on pacifism, Zionism, control of nuclear weapons, world government, freedom, and racial equality.
- Contents:
- 1. The making of a global public intellectual
- 2. Foundations of thought; principles, privacy, and performance
- 3. Pacifism
- 4. Zionism and Israel
- 5. The bomb and the arms race
- 6. World government
- 7. Freedom and cold-war politics
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198785496
- 9780198785491
- OCLC:
- 944463025
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