The Judge and the Historian keyword spartacist uprising 1919 A parade of ships full A parade of ships full of raw commodities—iron ore Harvey updates his classic text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today 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 Standing in the tradition of Emile Zola’s famous J’accuse polemic against the Dreyfus trial at the end of the nineteenth century