Village Politics And The Mafia In Sicily

Author : Filippo Sabetti
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077357073X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily written by Filippo Sabetti and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He suggests that the mafia emerged only in some parts of Sicily and was never a single overarching criminal organization. It arose, in fact, from a self-help tradition that eventually became corrupted and ultimately a burden on most villagers - land workers and proprietors alike. The local antimafia forces also became a drain on village life and by the middle of the 1950s both the mafia and the antimafia, far from destroying one another, had vanquished themselves. The first study to extend rational choice institutionalism to Italian history and politics, Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily offers an in-depth analysis of the impact of the abolition of feudalism in 1812, the unification of Italy in 1860, and subsequent regime changes on village politics in Sicily. Sabetti details the emergence, evolution, and collapse of a local mafia and antimafia in a historical, "before-after," perspective. Refocusing the study of village politics and the mafia, he also suggests what can happen when those acting for the state regard ordinary people as passive voices in the game of life.

Author : Filippo Sabetti
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773524750
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily written by Filippo Sabetti and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refocusing the study of village politics and the mafia by extending rational choice institutionalism to Italian history and politics, Sabetti shows what can happen when those acting for the state regard ordinary people as passive voices in the game of life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anton Blok
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mafia of a Sicilian Village, 1860-1960 written by Anton Blok and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to account for the rural mafia in western Sicily in the 19th & 20th centuries through a detailed examination of the overall social networks of mafiosi of a particular peasant community formed with other individuals.

Author : Diego Gambetta
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674249046
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sicilian Mafia written by Diego Gambetta and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for parties to commercial transactions. Drawing on the confessions of eight Mafiosi, Diego Gambetta develops an elegant analysis of the economic and political role of the Sicilian Mafia.

Author : Filippo Sabetti
Publisher : New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Authority in a Sicilian Village written by Filippo Sabetti and published by New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith Chubb
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mafia and Politics written by Judith Chubb and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. G.D. Maran
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429927372
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mafia: Inside the Dark Heart written by A. G.D. Maran and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An, expansive, intriguing and meticulous account of the Sicilian Mafia. The pre-dawn arrests of the last remaining mafiosi in December 2008 signaled the end of the Sicilian Mafia as we know it. In Mafia: Inside the Dark Heart, A.G.D. Maran charts the complete history of the world's most infamous criminal organization, from its first incarnation as an alternative form of local government in the Sicilian countryside and arguable force for "good," to the more familiar form that has been immortalized films such as The Godfather, and its final defeat after a long-awaited change of attitude by the Italian government. The son of an Italian immigrant, A.G.D. Maran had always been interested in the Mafia, but it was a recently uncovered family secret that led him on a journey deeper into its dark heart. Along the way, he asks many provocative questions, including: - Was one of the biggest errors the United States made to free and deport Lucky Luciano to Italy, where he organized the international drug trade? - How and why did the Vatican get duped into helping the Mafia? - Why did the Mafia murder Roberto Calvi, known as God's Banker? - What is the relationship between the Mafia and Freemasonry? - Why did successive Italian governments fail to tackle the Mafia? - Why did it take 40 years to find the Last Godfathers? These and many other riveting issues are covered in Maran's refreshing new take on a perennially enthralling subject. After a decade of exhaustive research, including interviews with his many Italian contacts, in this book Maran brings to life the story of the rise and fall of the Sicilian Mafia while also exploring its links to the Cosa Nostra in America.

Author : Letizia Paoli
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 019973044X
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime written by Letizia Paoli and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook explores organized crime, which it divides into two main concepts and types: the first is a set of stable organizations illegal per se or whose members systematically engage in crime, and the second is a set of serious criminal activities that are typically carried out for monetary gain.

Author : Monte S. Finkelstein
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934223515
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Separatism, the Allies and the Mafia written by Monte S. Finkelstein and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the separatist movement's origins, its leaders and followers, the actions in which separatists engaged to establish a free Sicily, the factors that caused the movement's demise, and its legacy. This book also examines the relationship of the separatist movement to the United States, Great Britain, and the Sicilian mafia.

Author : Theodoros Rakopoulos
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785334018
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Clans to Co-ops written by Theodoros Rakopoulos and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives operating on land confiscated from mafiosi in Sicily, a project that the state hails as arguably the greatest symbolic victory over the mafia in Italian history. Rakopoulos’s ethnographic focus is on access to resources, divisions of labor, ideologies of community and food, and the material changes that cooperatives bring to people’s lives in terms of kinship, work and land management. The book contributes to broader debates about cooperativism, how labor might be salvaged from market fundamentalism, and to emergent discourses about the ‘human’ economy.