Promising Practices: A Preface Pamela E. Klassen, Monique Scheer, and Benjamin L. Berger Introduction: Fragmented Promises, Pentimento & the Salvage Paradigm Jeffery Hewitt Part I: Promises in Place: A Great Lakes Pentimento Pamela E. Klassen 1. Remembering, Forgetting and the Telling of Stories: 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 Part II: The Weight of the Promise: Material-Immaterial Practices Monique Scheer 4. Making Promises to the Shogun: Spinoza on the Dutch United East Indian Company in Japan Pooyan Tamimi Arab 5.

Longing and Belonging in France and Algeria: The Promise of Amel's Chedda Jennifer 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 Part III: The Oath, the Law, and the "Sense of Religion" Benjamin L. Berger 8. "However Honestly Meant": Chinese Australians and Truth-Telling in Colonial Victorian Courts Catherine 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 Conclusion: Promises That Make Us Who We Are Jeremy Webber.