Richard Crockatt

Einstein and Twentieth-Century Politics

'A Salutary Moral Influence'

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780198785491
• ISBN-10: 0198785496
• Artikelnr.: 45984454

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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
Conclusion