Making promises : oaths, treaties, and covenants in multi-jurisdictional and multi-religious societies /
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Promises remembered and erased : treaties, land, and commemoration in the aftermath of the American Revolution / Elizabeth Elbourne
- 2. “The culture of the soil” : agriculture, improvement, and settler colonial landscapes of nineteenth century Manitoulin Island / Kate Stoehr
- 3. Between gratitude and guilt : the promise of a better life in a settler colony for racialized refugees / Sujith Xavier
- 4. Making promises to the Shogun : Spinoza on the Dutch East India Company in Japan / Pooyan Tamimi Arab
- 5. Longing and belonging in France and Algeria : the promise of Amel’s Chedda / Jennifer A. Selby
- 6. Quid pro quo? Egyptian papyri distributions and the bureaucracy of a promise / Gregory Fewster
- 7. Covenant, Torah, and the failed promise of Jewish Museums / Yaniv Feller
- 8. “However honestly meant” : Chinese Australians and truth-telling in Colonial Victorian courts / Catherine L. Evans
- 9. An oath on the big book : oaths and examinations in American codes of procedure / Kellen Funk
- 10. Ceremonial promises : oath, treaties, and the transformation of Christian privilege in Canada / Pamela E. Klassen and Isabel Klassen-Marshall.