Einstein's German World
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-17130-2 (ISBN)
Other chapters, also based on new archival sources, consider the turbulent and interrelated careers of the physicist Max Planck, an austere and powerful figure who helped to make Berlin a happy, productive place for Einstein and other legendary scientists; of Paul Ehrlich, the founder of chemotherapy; of Walther Rathenau, the German-Jewish industrialist and statesman tragically assassinated in 1922; and of Chaim Weizmann, chemist, Zionist, and first president of Israel, whose close relations with his German colleagues is here for the first time recounted. Stern examines the still controversial way that historians have dealt with World War I and Germans have dealt with their nation's defeat, and he analyzes the conflicts over the interpretations of Germany's past that persist to this day. He also writes movingly about the psychic cost of Germany's reunification in 1990, the reconciliation between Germany and Poland, and the challenges and prospects facing Germany today.
At once historical and personal, provocative and accessible, Einstein's German World illuminates the issues that made Germany's and Europe's past and present so important in a tumultuous century of creativity and violence.
Fritz Stern is University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Editorial and Executive Committees of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein since 1984.
PREFACE TO THE NEW PAPERBACK EDITION ix A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR xv INTRODUCTION 3 PART ONE: The Promise of German Life CHAPTER 1. Paul Ehrlich: The Founder of Chemotherapy 13 CHAPTER 2. Max Planck and the Trials of His Times 35 CHAPTER 3. Together and Apart: Fritz Haber and Albert Einstein 59 CHAPTER 4. Walther Rathenau. and the Vision of Modernity 165 PART TWO: The Great War and Consequent Terrors CHAPTER 5. Historians and the Great War: Private Experience and Public Explication 199 CHAPTER 6. Chaim Weizmann and Liberal Nationalism 223 CHAPTER 7. Freedom and Its Discontents: The Travails of the New Germany 253 CHAPTER 8. The Past Distorted: The Goldhagen Controversy 272 CHAPTER 9. Lost Homelands: German-Polish Reconciliation 289 NOTES 303 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 325 INDEX 329
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.05.2016 |
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Vorwort | Fritz Stern |
Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-17130-0 / 0691171300 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-17130-2 / 9780691171302 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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