Silencing the Past Paperback - 1997

Name: Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
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Author: Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
ISBN: 9780807043110

by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

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From the publisher

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.

Details

Title Silencing the Past
Author Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Binding Paperback
Edition [ Edition: Repri
Pages 216
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Beacon Press (MA), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date July 30, 1997
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780807043110 / 0807043117
Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5 x 0.6 in (21.08 x 12.70 x 1.52 cm)
Library of Congress Catalog Number 95017665
Dewey Decimal Code 901

Media reviews

Now that so many grand projects of the past are up for reappraisal, Michel-Rolph Trouillot interrogates history, to ask how histories are in fact produced. . . . A beautifully written book, exciting in its challenges. --Eric R. Wolf

"An accessible book filled with wisdom and humanity." --Bernard Mergen, American Studies International

"Aphoristic and witty, [Silencing the Past] shows that the two senses in which history is made, by doers and by tellers, meet in moments of evidentiary silence. [A] hard-nosed look at the soft edges of public discourse about the past." --Arjun Appadurai

"Trouillot is a first-rate scholar with provocative ideas. . . . His work [is] a feast for the mind." --Jay Freeman, Booklist

"Trouillot makes the postmodernist debate come alive." --Choice

"A sparkling interrogation of the past. . . . A beautifully written, superior book." --Foreign Affairs

"Elegantly written and richly allusive. . . Silencing the Past is an important contribution to the anthropology of history. Its most lasting impression is made perhaps by Trouillot's own voice--endlessly agile, sometimes cuttingly funny, but always evocative in a direct and powerful, almost poetic way." --Donald L. Donham, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"Written with clarity, wit, and style throughout, this book is for everyone interested in historical culture."--Civilization

About the author

Michel-Rolph Trouillot, one of the most prominent Haitian scholars in the United States, is director of the Institute for Global Studies in culture, Power, and History and Krieger/Eisenhower Distinguished Professor in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.