Pasts Beyond Memory by Bennett, Tony -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Museum Meanings Full Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Dead circuses: expertise, exhibition, government

The expert as showman Time and space in the museum Evolution as temporal conscience Expertise, exhibition, government and new liberalism International networks and the new museum idea

2 The archaeological gaze of the historical sciences

The odds and ends of history Reading the rocks Filling in time History in motion

3 Reassembling the museum

Black-boxing evolution Bureaucratising the past Archaeological objects

4 The connective tissue of civilisation

Accumulating pasts: habit, memory and self-government Archaeologising the self and the social Evolution, culture and liberal government Evolutionary accumulators

5 Selective memory: racial recall and civic renewal at the American Museum of Natural History

Evolution, ethics, government: philanthropy and the state Nature's many lessons Renewing the race plasm: accumulation and difference

6 Evolutionary ground zero: colonialism and the fold of memory

Colonial liberalism, culture and the state Vicious circles and rigmaroles: the plan of creation Shallowing the past From ‘let die’ to ‘let live’

7 Words, things and vision: evolution ‘at a glance’

The spaces in-between: evolution and its blind spots Seeing and knowing Classification and the arrangement of the visible Object ventriloquism and evolutionary expertise Developing clear-sighted attentiveness

Postscript: slow modernity Notes References Index

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