Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of HistoryPlacing 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. |
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User Review - Beartracker - LibraryThingHistory may be written by the winners, but it is also written by those in power. Often, they are one and the same. So, who is to say what becomes “history” and what does not? Who controls what is ... Read full review
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User Review - dangnad - LibraryThingThis book starts out with an interesting notion: There are two aspects of history (1) the sociohistorical process, that is, "what happened" and (2) the historical narrative, that is, "that which is ... Read full review
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| Title | Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History |
| Author | Michel-Rolph Trouillot |
| Publisher | Beacon Press, 2012 |
| ISBN | 0807095354, 9780807095355 |
| Length | 216 pages |
| Subjects | › History / General History / Historiography History / World |
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