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Silencing the past : power and the production of history

Author:Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Summary:In this provocative analysis of historical narrative, Michel-Rolph Trouillot demonstrates how power operates, often invisibly, at all stages in the making of history to silence certain voices. From the West's failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution, the most successful slave revolt in history, to the continued debate over denials of the Holocaust, and the meaning of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, Trouillot shows us that history is not simply the recording of facts and events, but a process of actively enforced silences, some unconscious, others quite deliberate

eBook, English, ©2015

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Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston, ©2015

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)

Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 190 pages) : illustrations

ISBN:

9780807080535, 9780807043103, 9780807080542, 0807080535, 0807043109, 0807080543

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:924271500

Subjects:

Historiographie

Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)

Power (Social sciences)

historicism (theory)

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Print version:

Silencing the past.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph.

Contents:

The Power in the Story

The Three Faces of Sans Souci

An Unthinkable History

Good Day, Columbus

The Presence in the Past

Language Notes:English

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