Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

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Beacon Press, Jan 31, 2012 - History - 216 pages
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history.

About the author (2012)

Michel-Rolph Trouillot, one of the most prominent Haitian scholars in the United States, is director of the Institute for Global Studies in culture, Power, and History and Krieger/Eisenhower Distinguished Professor in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

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TitleSilencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
AuthorMichel-Rolph Trouillot
PublisherBeacon Press, 2012
ISBN0807095354, 9780807095355
Length216 pages
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History / General
History / Historiography
History / World
  
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