Silencing the Past
Power and the Production of History
Beacon Press · Print & ebook · March 17, 2015
Now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck The 20th anniversary edition of a pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is produced—now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution—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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- Who it’s for
- A sharp, compact meditation on how history gets made, shaped, and quietly constrained.
- Genres
- Historiography, History of Haiti, Colonialism & Its Aftermath
- Published
- Beacon Press, March 17, 2015
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Now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck The 20th anniversary edition of a pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is produced—now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution—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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This modern classic resides at the intersection of history, anthropology, Caribbean, African-American, and post-colonial studies, and has become a staple in college classrooms around the country. In a new foreword, Hazel Carby explains the book’s enduring importance to these fields of study and introduces a new generation of readers to Trouillot’s brilliant analysis of power and history’s silences.
How History Speaks
A sharp, compact meditation on how history gets made, shaped, and quietly constrained.
Come here for
- history, power, and what gets left out
- dense ideas that invite re-reading
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- layered argument
- good conversation fuel
Where it sits
| Historiography | 79% |
|---|---|
| History of Haiti | 60% |
| Colonialism & Its Aftermath | 51% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historiography
- Caribbean History
- Cultural Anthropology
- Authors
- Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Published
- March 17, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Historiography