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The mind is a collection : case studies in eighteenth-century thought / by Silver, Sean, 1972-

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Conversations with remarkable Native Americans

Table of Contents: “…Madsen -- From the forgotten American to indigenous rights / Joëlle Rostkowski -- Conversation with series editor Gerald Vizenor -- Scott Momaday, poet, novelist, painter, and UNESCO artist for peace -- Suzan Harjo, policy advocate, journalist, and poet -- Richard West, lawyer and founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian -- Emil Her Many Horses, curator, National Museum of the American Indian -- Sven Haakanson, director of the Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska -- Veronical Tiller, historian, consultant, and writer -- Erma Vizenor, tribal chair, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota -- Louisita Warren, elder of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico -- Tony Abeyta, painter and sculptor -- David Bradley, painter and sculptor -- Darren Vigil Gray, painter and musician -- Jill Momaday, actress, model, and chief of protocol, State of New Mexico -- Rulen Tangen, dancer and choreographer -- Robert Tim Coulter, laywer, founder and director of the Indian Law Resource Center -- Kenneth Deer, journalist, educator, and UN indigenous representative -- Text from U.N. document: Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.…”
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The challenge of linear time : nationhood and the politics of history in East Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Viren Murthy, Axel Schneider -- [1] Time, history, and moral responsibility -- Negativity and historicist time : facticity and intellectual history of the 1930s / Naoki Sakai -- Ontological optimism, cosmological confusion, and unstable evolution : Tan Sitong's Renxue and Zhang Taiyan's response / Viren Murthy -- Nation, history and ethics : the choices of post-imperial historiography in China / Axel Schneider -- Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and reading history / Sun Ge -- [2] The burden of the past and the hope for a better future -- An eschatological view of history : Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s / Takahiro Nakajima -- The campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius and the problem of "Restoration" in Chinese Marxist historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- [3] Recollection of the past and the popularization of history -- Popular readings and wartime historical writings in modern China / Long-Hsin Liu -- Figuring history and horror in a provincial museum : the water dungeon, the rent collection courtyard, and the socialist undead / Haiyan Lee -- [4] History and the definition of spatial, cultural and temporal boundaries -- Revolution as restoration : meanings of "national essence" and "national learning" in Guocui Xuebao / Tze-Ki Hon -- Temporality of knowledge and history writing in early twentieth-century China : Liu Yizheng and The history of Chinese culture / Ya-Pei Kuo.…”
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