GUEST EDITORS' LETTER

Bain Attwood, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Claudio Lomnitz

The Public Life of History
Public Culture 20(1): 1-4 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-2007-011 [PDF]  

DOXA AT LARGE

Achille Mbembe

Passages to Freedom: The Politics of Racial Reconciliation in South Africa
Public Culture 20(1): 5-18 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-2007-012 [PDF]  

Faisal Devji

Red Mosque
Public Culture 20(1): 19-26 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-2007-013 [PDF]  

THE PUBLIC LIFE OF HISTORY

George Chauncey

How History Mattered: Sodomy Law and Marriage Reform in the United States
Public Culture 20(1): 27-38 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-2007-014 [PDF]  

Claudio Lomnitz

Narrating the Neoliberal Moment: History, Journalism, Historicity
Public Culture 20(1): 39-56 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-2007-015 [PDF]  

Neeladri Bhattacharya

Predicaments of Secular Histories
Public Culture 20(1): 57-73 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-2007-016 [PDF]  

Bain Attwood

In the Age of Testimony: The Stolen Generations Narrative, "Distance," and Public History
Public Culture 20(1): 75-95 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-2007-017 [PDF]  

Miranda Johnson

Making History Public: Indigenous Claims to Settler States
Public Culture 20(1): 97-117 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-2007-018 [PDF]  

Deborah Posel

History as Confession: The Case of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Public Culture 20(1): 119-141 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-2007-019 [PDF]  

Dipesh Chakrabarty

The Public Life of History: An Argument out of India
Public Culture 20(1): 143-168 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-2007-020 [PDF]  

Books Received

Books Received
Public Culture 20(1): 169-170 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-20-1-169 [PDF]  

Contributors

Contributors
Public Culture 20(1): 171-172 (2008); DOI:10.1215/08992363-20-1-171 [PDF]  

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