{"product_id":"the-judge-and-the-historian-marginal-notes-on-a-late-twentieth-century-miscarriage-of-justice-9781859843710","title":"The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carlo Ginzburg\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Italy\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","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45413345853591,"sku":"9781859843710","price":2007.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781859843710.webp?v=1767444753","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-judge-and-the-historian-marginal-notes-on-a-late-twentieth-century-miscarriage-of-justice-9781859843710","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}