The Judge and the Historian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Judge and the Historian write by Carlo Ginzburg. This book was released on 2002-08-17. The Judge and the Historian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the 16th and 17th centuries to dissect the weaknesses of the state's case in the 20th-century show trial of Italian communists, Sofri, Bompressi and Pietrostefani.
The Judge and the Historian
The Judge and the Historian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Judge and the Historian write by Carlo Ginzburg. This book was released on 1999. The Judge and the Historian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Moral Reckoning
A Moral Reckoning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Moral Reckoning write by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. This book was released on 2007-12-18. A Moral Reckoning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With his first book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen dramatically revised our understanding of the role ordinary Germans played in the Holocaust. Now he brings his formidable powers of research and argument to bear on the Catholic Church and its complicity in the destruction of European Jewry. What emerges is a work that goes far beyond the familiar inquiries—most of which focus solely on Pope Pius XII—to address an entire history of hatred and persecution that culminated, in some cases, in an active participation in mass-murder. More than a chronicle, A Moral Reckoning is also an assessment of culpability and a bold attempt at defining what actions the Church must take to repair the harm it did to Jews—and to repair itself. Impressive in its scholarship, rigorous in its ethical focus, the result is a book of lasting importance.
Telling it to the Judge
Telling it to the Judge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Telling it to the Judge write by Arthur J. Ray. This book was released on 2011-10-17. Telling it to the Judge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in the mid-1980s. For over twenty-five years he has been a part of landmark litigation concerning treaty rights, Aboriginal title, and Métis rights. In Telling It to the Judge, Ray recalls lengthy courtroom battles over lines of evidence, historical interpretation, and philosophies of history, reflecting on the problems inherent in teaching history in the adversarial courtroom setting. Told with charm and based on extensive experience, Telling It to the Judge is a unique narrative of courtroom strategy in the effort to obtain constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and treaty rights.
On the Judgment of History
On the Judgment of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Judgment of History write by Joan Wallach Scott. This book was released on 2020-09-22. On the Judgment of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the face of conflict and despair, we often console ourselves by saying that history will be the judge. Today’s oppressors may escape being held responsible for their crimes, but the future will condemn them. Those who stand up for progressive values are on the right side of history. As ideas once condemned to the dustbin of history—white supremacy, hypernationalism, even fascism—return to the world, threatening democratic institutions and values, can we still hold out hope that history will render its verdict? Joan Wallach Scott critically examines the belief that history will redeem us, revealing the implicit politics of appeals to the judgment of history. She argues that the notion of a linear, ever-improving direction of history hides the persistence of power structures and hinders the pursuit of alternative futures. This vision of necessary progress perpetuates the assumption that the nation-state is the culmination of history and the ultimate source for rectifying injustice. Scott considers the Nuremberg Tribunal and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which claimed to carry out history’s judgment on Nazism and apartheid, and contrasts them with the movement for reparations for slavery in the United States. Advocates for reparations call into question a national history that has long ignored enslavement and its racist legacies. Only by this kind of critical questioning of the place of the nation-state as the final source of history’s judgment, this book shows, can we open up room for radically different conceptions of justice.
