{"product_id":"the-judge-and-the-historian-marginal-notes-on-a-late-twentieth-century-miscarriage-of-justice-paperback-1","title":"The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarlo Ginzburg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAntony Shugaar\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eJ'accuse\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarlo Ginzburg\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Turin and now teaches at UCLA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of the Sixteenth-Century Miller\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEcstasies: Deciphering the Witches\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003e Sabbath\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 7.5 x 5.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52709120966963,"sku":"9781859843710","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/5yzvshpviK9781859843710.webp?v=1783506690","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-judge-and-the-historian-marginal-notes-on-a-late-twentieth-century-miscarriage-of-justice-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}