Silencing the past : power and the production of history /

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 his...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Trouillot, Michel-Rolph (Author)
Other Authors:	Carby, Hazel V. (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Beacon Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Historicism. Power (Social sciences) Historiography.