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Silencing the Past

Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

1995·224 pages·Nonfiction

History & Politics

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.

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Silencing the Past

Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Year

1995

Pages

224

Type

Nonfiction

History & Politics

Description

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.

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