num_pages: 216
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.
language: English
title: Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
titlecomplete: Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
genres: History, Anthropology, Theory, Philosophy, Grad School, Academic, Race, Politics, World History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2554
publisher: Beacon