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PublisherBeacon Press

ISBN-100807080535

ISBN-139780807080535

eBay Product ID (ePID)201589871

Product Key Features

Edition20

Book TitleSilencing the Past : Power and the Production of History

Number of Pages216 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicHistoriography, Sociology / General, Adventurers & Explorers, Anthropology / General, Caribbean & West Indies / General, Sociology / Social Theory

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorMichel-Rolph. Trouillot

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight9.2 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-460331

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 "Written with clarity, wit, and style throughout, this book is for everyone interested in historical culture." -- American Historical Review "[Trouillot was] a transformative presence in multiple fields [who] redefined the meaning of scholarship. . . . Trouillot taught us all how to read carefully, argue passionately, and write responsibly." --Colin Dayan, Boston Review

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal901

Edition DescriptionAnniversary,Revised edition

SynopsisNow 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. 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., 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. 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., Foreword by Hazel V. Carby A modern classic about power and the making of history, with a new foreword by a prominent scholar Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debates over the Alamo and Christopher Columbus, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history. Presented here with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel V. Carby, Silencing the Past is an indispensable analysis of the silences in our historical narratives, of what is omitted and what is recorded, what is remembered and what is forgotten, and what these silences reveal about inequalities of power.

LC Classification NumberD16.9.T85 2015