The Judge and the Historian - Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	Carlo Ginzburg
Translators:	Antony Shugaar
Dimensions:	191 x 137 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-1-85984-371-0
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	1-85984-371-9
Barcode:	9781859843710

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