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As napoleonic france attempted to reestablish imperial control and. Michelrolph trouillot is director of the institute for global studies in culture, power, and. He examines the suppression of the role of africans in the haitian revolution to demonstrate how power silences certain voices from history. Power and the production of history its very best chapter is freely accessible here, david lloyds irish times and ariella azoulays potential history.
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