Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 20th Anniversary Edition

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.

• The Pursuit of History
• The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
• The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
• Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Early American Studies)
• Writing History in the Global Era
• Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
• What Is History?
• Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
• The Return of Martin Guerre
• The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.