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The judge and the historian : marginal notes on a late-twentieth-century miscarriage of justice / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Antony Shugaar.
- Title
- The judge and the historian : marginal notes on a late-twentieth-century miscarriage of justice / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Antony Shugaar.
- Author
- Ginzburg, Carlo
- Publication
- London : New York : Verso, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ITA 996 SOF7513 1999 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Shugaar, Antony
- Description
- xii, 211 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "In The Judge and the Historian Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witchcraft trials to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state's case in a late-twentieth-century political show-trial (Lotta Continua). Carefully exposing the twists and turns of the various proceedings, Ginzburg also takes the opportunity to reflect more generally on the similarities and differences between the roles of judge and historian. Standing in the tradition of Emile Zola's famous J'accuse polemic against the Dreyfus trial at the end of the 1900s, Ginzburg's book demonstrates the continuing potency of intellectual rigour and passion against political opportunism and dishonesty at the end of this century."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Giudice e lo storico. English
- Alternative Title
- Giudice e lo storico.
- Subject
- Note
- "This translation is based on the revised ed. which appeared in French in 1997"--P. vii.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: THE JUDGE AND THE HISTORIAN 1 -- Notes 121 -- Postscript 133 -- Afterword: Two Verdicts Compared 185 -- Chronology 206.
- ISBN
- 1859848699
- OCLC
- 42263556
- SCSB-10017835
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library