
Carlo Ginzburg’s brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades... Read More
- Perry Anderson, London Review Of Books“No other living historian approaches the range of [Ginzburg’s] erudition. Every page of Threads and Traces, his latest work to appear in English, offers an illustration of it.”
- Ben McDonald, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Historical Jrnl“This is a brilliant text, the product of a scholar of rare breadth and knowledge.”
- Raymond Grew, University of Michigan, Jrnl Of Interdisciplinary History“Surprising pace, intellectual range, and learned discourse is typical throughout the book. . . . Artfully constructed essays.”
- Publishers Weekly“Ginzburg’s range is remarkable . . . rich in references to and insights about diverse historical perspectives.”
- Benjamin Ivry, Forward“A collection of essays by the profoundly original, intellectually wide-ranging, Italian-Jewish historian Carlo Ginzburg . . . an illuminating collection of chapters, deftly translated from the original Italian by Anne C. and John Tedeschi.”
- Jonathan Beckman, The Literary Review“These essays humanely and generously explore the question of how history ought to be written.”
– Perry Anderson, London Review Of Books“No other living historian approaches the range of [Ginzburg’s] erudition. Every page of Threads and Traces, his latest work to appear in English, offers an illustration of it.”
– Ben McDonald, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Historical Jrnl“This is a brilliant text, the product of a scholar of rare breadth and knowledge.”
– Raymond Grew, University of Michigan, Jrnl Of Interdisciplinary History“Surprising pace, intellectual range, and learned discourse is typical throughout the book. . . . Artfully constructed essays.”
– Publishers Weekly“Ginzburg’s range is remarkable . . . rich in references to and insights about diverse historical perspectives.”
– Benjamin Ivry, Forward“A collection of essays by the profoundly original, intellectually wide-ranging, Italian-Jewish historian Carlo Ginzburg . . . an illuminating collection of chapters, deftly translated from the original Italian by Anne C. and John Tedeschi.”
– Jonathan Beckman, The Literary Review“These essays humanely and generously explore the question of how history ought to be written.”