Richard Crockatt

Gebundenes Buch

Einstein and Twentieth-Century Politics

'A Salutary Moral Influence'

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Born in Scotland in 1947, Richard Crockatt studied English Language and Literature at Edinburgh University. After two years in Germany he studied for a D.Phil at Sussex University on the topic of American liberalism. In 1978 he was appointed lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia from which he retired as professor in 2011. Specialising in American foreign policy and international relations in the twentieth century, he is author of The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941-1991 (1995), America Embattled: September 11, Anti-Americanism, and the Global Order (2003), and After 9/11: Cultural Dimensions of American Global Power (2007). He has also published throughout his career in the field of intellectual history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780198785491
• ISBN-10: 0198785496
• Artikelnr.: 45984454