Silencing the Past
7 best books like Silencing the Past (Michel-Rolph Trouillot): Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Black Skin, White Masks, Orientalism, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679752552 |
This book begins with a bang – in fact, a series of bangs. That is the point, you see. We need to be shocked about what is, after all, our relatively recent past. We too easily forget that there was a time when ‘people like us’ actually span back in history for nearly as far as the mind could imagine. Now,...
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802150845 |
Black Skins White Masks is a scary book. In it Fanon discusses the black man’s experience in a white world; he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speak.
“The N**** enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike...
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Author | Benedict Anderson |
| ISBN | 0860915468 |
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely...
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0809016346 |
The book that launched environmental history now updated.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
| Author | Carlo Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 0801843871 |
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, a miller brought to trial during the Inquisition. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records of Domenico Scandella, a miller also known as Menocchio, to show how one person responded to the...
| Author | Dipesh Chakrabarty |
| ISBN | 0691130019 |
First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues,...
