The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice - Brossura

Ginzburg, Carlo

 
9781859843710: The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice

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A bomb, an anarchist’s ‘accidental death’, the murder of a police commissar, and the confession of a former member of Lotta Continua led to seven dubious court cases and a tale of political opportunism and dishonesty. Standing in the tradition of Emile Zola’s famous J’accuse polemic against the Dreyfus trial at the end of the nineteenth-century, the historian Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state’s case in this late-twentieth-century political show-trial and reflects more generally on the similarities and differences between the roles of the historian and the judge.

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Carlo Ginzburg was born in Turin and now teaches at UCLA. He is the author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of the Sixteenth-Century Miller, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches Sabbath and The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

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9781859848692: The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice

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ISBN 10:  1859848699 ISBN 13:  9781859848692
Casa editrice: Verso Books, 1999
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