Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot with John Pruden (Narrator)

nonfiction history philosophy informative reflective medium-paced

5 hours, 45 minutes | first published 1995

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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 oper...
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