Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, (Paperback)

from vanderschloot

This is an important and classic work of historiography. It is pretty out of place in the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program, since it is the only book I can recall seeing here that is academic. And yes, this is an academic book, and not popular non-fiction. That being said, I think it deserves...

from Paulagraph

I found Silencing the Past (published in 1995) both fascinating and illuminating, still new, while at the same time anchored in the scholarly discourse of the 1990s. Since the January, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Trouillot's book seems to have appeared on every bookseller's recommended shelf. But I...

from Bidwell-Glaze

I missed Michel Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past: Power and Production of History the first time around. I'm glad I had a chance to see it in its twentieth anniversary edition. Trouillot is inspiring in his passion, clear in his terminology, exquisitely precise in his explanations of facts an...

from TLCrawford

To explain this book in the simplest terms I would simply say that Trouillot explains how we get holes, or as he calls them silences, in our historical narrative. It is simple, he writes, silences occur at "the moment of fact creation (making the sources), at the moment of fact assembly (making t...

from Jahoclave

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History Michel-Rolph Trouillot Beacon Press March 2015 978-0807080535 At a time when educational "reformers" push to reduce not only the sciences, but also the humanities towards quantifiable, or more accurately testable, quanta of knowledge, the st...