Einstein / Rowe / Schulmann Einstein on Politics

His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4828-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Einstein, Albert

Rowe, David E

Schulmann, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Texts vii

Preface xix

Note on Sources and Method xxxi

Acknowledgments xxxiii

Historical Introduction 1

Chapter 1. The First World War and Its Impact, 1914-1921 61

Chapter 2. Science Meets Politics: The Relativity Revolution, 1918-1923 93

Chapter 3. Anti-Semitism and Zionism, 1919-1930 136

Chapter 4. Internationalism and European Security, 1922-1932 189

Chapter 5. Articles of Faith, 1930-1933 223

Chapter 6. Hitler's Germany and the Threat to European Jewry, 1933-1938 266

Chapter 7. The Fate of the Jews, 1939-1949 315

Chapter 8. The Second World War, Nuclear Weapons, and World Peace, 1939-1950 356

Chapter 9. Soviet Russia, Political Economy, and Socialism, 1918-1952 406

Chapter 10. Political Freedom and the Threat of Nuclear War, 1931-1955 459

Bibliography 509

Index 515

Plate Credits 524

Über Autor(innen)

David E. Rowe is professor of the history of mathematics and natural sciences at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and a former member of the Einstein Papers Project. Robert Schulmann, a former Boston University history professor, is former head of the Einstein Papers Project. He coedited Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters and many volumes of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (all Princeton).