Trouillot, Michel-Rolph - Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) Source Information
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Trouillot, Michel-Rolph - Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) Source Information
Author: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Full Title: Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Publisher: Beacon Press
Year: 1995
Edition in Use: 20th anniversary edition with foreword by Hazel V. Carby (2015)
Type: Secondary Source - Historiography, Historical Method, and the Haitian Revolution as World-Historical Problem
Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/
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Review pass: Completed (2026-03-27) - historiography and archive-method pass focused on the four moments of silencing, Sans Souci, and revolutionary unthinkability
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Graph review in this pass: Strengthened why do some stories get told and others erased?, moc historiography, and moc sources Overview Trouillot remains the vault's central source for understanding how power enters history not only through events but through the making of sources, archives, narratives, and retrospective importance. Haiti is his most famous case because the Haitian Revolution was, in his formulation, "unthinkable" within the dominant Western worldview even as it unfolded.
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