Einstein on politics : his private thoughts and public stands on nationalism, zionism, war, peace, and the bomb / edited by David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann. - Princeton : Princeton university press, 2007. - xxxiv, 523 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-514) and index.

The first world war and its impact, 1914-1921 -- Science meets politics : the relativity revolution, 1918-1923 -- Anti-semitism and Zionism, 1919-1930 -- Internationalism and European security, 1922-1932 -- Articles of faith, 1930-1933 -- Hitler’s Germany and the threat to European Jewry, 1933-1938 -- The fate of the Jews, 1939-1949 -- The Second World War, nuclear weapons, and world peace, 1939-1950 -- Soviet Russia, political economy, and socialism, 1918-1952 -- Political freedom and the threat of nuclear war, 1931-1955.

"In Einstein on Politics, leading Einstein scholars David Rowe and Robert Schulmann gather Einstein’s most important public and private political writings and put them into historical context. The book reveals a little-known Einstein - not the ineffectual and naive idealist of popular imagination, but a principled, shrewd pragmatist whose stands on political issues reflected the depth of his humanity."--BOOK JACKET.

9780691120942 0691120943 (rel)

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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 --Political and social views.


Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 --Ethics.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 --Religion.

B QC 16 / E35 2007

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