The Unfinished Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Schell teaches at Wesleyan University and the New School University. A Fellow at the Nation Institute and co-founder of a recently formed citizen's initiative to negotiate the abolition of nuclear weapons, he is the author of nine books including Fate of the Earth , which was published in twenty countries. Klappentext Jonathon Schell suggests that the essential story of the twentieth century was the gigantic development of humankind s capacity for self-destruction. Zusammenfassung According to Schell! the defining characteristic of the 20th century was the uncontrolled acceleration of mankind's capacity for self-destruction: where does this leave us at the start of the new millennium? He suggests that the world now faces a choice between annihilation and rapid proliferation.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jonathan Schell, Schell Jonathan
• Verlag: Verso
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.09.2003
• EAN: 9781859844939
• ISBN: 978-1-85984-493-9
• Seiten: 128
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 190 mm x 10 mm
• Themen: Sachbuch; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Nuclear weapons