Alison Mcqueen: 5 books

"Beautiful and brave and bittersweet—a moving story of how love in all its forms binds us together and endures, in spite of everything."—Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of The Firebird and The Winter Sea A breathtaking story of forbidden love and devastating...

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 and declined, together with factors contributing to development and change in narrative performance....

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...

Un amour interdit. Un secret inavouable. La fin d'un empire. 1957. Sophie a vingt-sept ans lorsqu'elle épouse Lucien, un diplomate avec qui elle part s'installer à New Delhi, destination qui réveille en elle de douloureux souvenirs que son mari ignore... 1947. Sophie emménage dans le nord des...

Is political theory political enough? Or does a tendency toward abstraction, idealization, moralism, and utopianism leave contemporary political theory out of touch with real politics as it actually takes place, and hence unable to speak meaningfully to or about our world? Realist political thought,...