A bomb, an anarchists 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 Zolas famous Jaccuse 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 states 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.
The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice
Brand: Verso
$24.78 - $30.98
- UPC:
- 9781859843710
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 2002-08-25
- Release Date:
- 2002-08-17
- Author:
- Carlo Ginzburg
- Language:
- french,english