Screen LibraryEinstein and twentieth-century politics : 'a salutary moral influence' /
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 governme...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=06f0ef200a9c4739a12c25ace7360ca9 |
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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.-- |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) : portraits |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780191088292 9780198785491 |
| Index Number: | QC16 |
| CLC: | D5-05 |
| Contents: | The making of a global public intellectual -- Foundations of thought : principles, privacy, and performance -- Pacifism -- Zionism and Israel -- The bomb and the arms race -- World government -- Freedom and cold-war politics. |