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Silencing the past : power and the production of history / Michel-Rolph Trouillot.
Author
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, ©1995.
Description
xix, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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D16.9 .T85 1995
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Historicism
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Power (Social sciences)
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Historiography
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Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-186) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. The power in the story
2. The three faces of Sans Souci
3. An unthinkable history
4. Good day, Columbus
5. The presence in the past
Epilogue
Notes
Index..
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ISBN
0807043109
9780807043103
9780807043110
0807043117
LCCN
95017665
OCLC
32429321
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Silencing the past : power and the production of history / Michel-Rolph Trouillot ; with a new foreword by Hazel V. Carby.
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