From climate change to nuclear war to the rise of demagogic populists, our world is shaped by doomsday expectations. In this path-breaking book, Alison McQueen shows why three of history's greatest political realists feared apocalyptic politics. Niccolò Machiavelli in the midst of Italy's vicious power struggles, Thomas Hobbes during England's bloody civil war, and Hans Morgenthau at the dawn of the thermonuclear age all saw the temptation to prophesy the end of days. Each engaged in subtle and surprising strategies to oppose apocalypticism, from using its own rhetoric to neutralize its worst effects to insisting on a clear-eyed, tragic acceptance of the human condition. Scholarly yet accessible, this book is at once an ambitious contribution to the history of political thought and a work that speaks to our times.
The last empress of the French, Eugenie (1826-1920) has had many biographers and has been "...a convenient scapegoat for criticisms of imperial politics and the person to blame for France's losses bot
Set in the last days of the Raj, a love story for India, for a lost world and an ill-fated love.London 1957. In a bid to erase her past, Sophie Schofield accepts a wedding proposal from ambitious Brit
From climate change to nuclear war to the rise of demagogic populists, our world is shaped by doomsday expectations. In this path-breaking book, Alison McQueen shows why three of history's greatest political realists feared apocalyptic politics. Niccolò Machiavelli in the midst of Italy's vicious power struggles, Thomas Hobbes during England's bloody civil war, and Hans Morgenthau at the dawn of the thermonuclear age all saw the temptation to prophesy the end of days. Each engaged in subtle and surprising strategies to oppose apocalypticism, from using its own rhetoric to neutralize its worst effects to insisting on a clear-eyed, tragic acceptance of the human condition. Scholarly yet accessible, this book is at once an ambitious contribution to the history of political thought and a work that speaks to our times.
This is not the India—or the man—that Sophie fell in love with ten years ago... Sophie never meant to come back to India, yet when her new, diplomat husband is posted to New Delhi and she steps once a
The Tanenbaum gift of over two hundred works of internationally significant nineteenth-century European art is one of the most important donations of art ever gifted to a Canadian gallery. A diverse a
Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished a
The Tanenbaum collection of nineteenth century European paintings and sculptures is unique, and one of the largest in Canada. A complete, fully illustrated catalog listing of each work makes this volu
Tokita (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash U., Australia) and Hughes (ethnomusicology, School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London, UK) present a collection of 16 essays
