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History of the mafia
\"Combining a nuanced history with a unique counternarrative concerning stereotypes of the immigrant, Salvatore Lupo, a leading historian of modern Italy and a major authority on its criminal history, has written the definitive account of the Sicilian Mafia from 1860 to the present. Consulting rare archival sources, he traces the web of associations, both illicit and legitimate, that have defined Cosa Nostra during its various incarnations. He focuses on several crucial periods of transition: the Italian unification of 1860 to 1861, the murder of noted politician Notarbartolo, fascist repression of the Mafia, the Allied invasion of 1943, social conflicts after each world war, and the major murders and trials of the 1980s.\" \"Lupo identifies the internal cultural codes that define the Mafia and places these codes within the context of social groups and communities. He also challenges the belief that the Mafia has grown more ruthless in recent decades. Rather than representing a shift from \"honorable\" crime to immoral drug trafficking and violence, Lupo argues the terroristic activities of the modern Mafia signify a new desire for visibility and a distinct break from the state. Where these pursuits will take the family adds a fascinating coda to Lupo's work.\"--Dust jacket.
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Minuit en Sicile
Partez a la rencontre des secrets les plus sombres de la SicileAu sud de l'Italie, la Sicile - une ile aux paysages arides, aux cotes magnifiques et aux tresors artistiques uniques - attire conquerants et voyageurs depuis des siecles. Au cA ur de cette rare beaute, Cosa Nostra, la mafia sicilienne, sa violence et sa corruption, qui impregnent chaque recoin de la vie insulaire.Au depart du fracassant proces a la fin des annees 1990 de l'ancien Premier ministre Giulio Andreotti, accuse de multiples collusions avec la mafia, Minuit en Sicile emporte le lecteur dans une enquete haletante baignee de toute l'exuberance et l'envoutement de cette ile merveilleuse. Un plongeon au cA ur le plus sombre de la Sicile, qui emprunte les voies de l'art, du voyage, de l'histoire et de la gastronomie pour l'un des meilleurs livres ecrits sur l'Italie contemporaine, aussi revelateur de la societe sicilienne que la lecture du Guepard a l'epoque. Sensuel, fascinant et glacant. Ce livre est tout simplement le meilleur ecrit a ce jour sur l'Italie du Sud. The EconomistCE QU'EN PENSE LA PRESSE:Peu de livres racontent l'Italie de l'apres-guerre de facon aussi remarquable. - Times Literary SupplementAchetez ce livre et lisez-le sans attendre. Minuit en Sicile est aussi riche que son sujet. - SlateL'evocation de la Sicile par Peter Robb est admirable. Sa lecture vaut a elle seule une visite de Palerme, cette ville fascinante, dangereuse et moribonde. Et vous pourrez la quitter avant la nuit. - Sunday TimesL'ecriture de Robb combine brillamment politique, mafia, voyage et grande gastronomie. Son livre est magistral. - The IndependentUn chef-d'oeuvre d'elegance et d'investigation emplie de scepticisme. Une lecture eminemment plaisante. - Evening StandardA PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR:Professeur d'universite et journaliste ne en Australie en 1946, Peter Robb a vecu de nombreuses annees a Naples et dans le Sud de l'Italie. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages, dont M, une biographie du Caravage. Minuit en Sicile est sa premiere publication.
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The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature
Using an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present, including diaries, testimonies, fiction, online video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature explores the ways that these literary engagements with the mafia relate to broader contemporary Italian life and offer implicit challenges, and a quiet code of resistance, to the trauma and injustice wrought by the mafia in various Italian cities.
Despite the long tradition of representing the mafia in Italian literature, until now women’s contributions to this literature have been overlooked. Pickering-Iazzi’s aim is to encourage new critical reflection on a broader selection of literature through new theoretical lenses in order to enrich our understanding of crime fiction, Sicily and Sicilian identity in literature, narrative traits of the new Italian epic, and the cultural and social functions of storytelling in life and literature.
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The good mothers : the true story of the women who took on the world's most powerful mafia
You are born in it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute - bloodshed revered. You go to prison, your grave, or kill your relatives before betraying The Family. The 'Ndrangheta is the most powerful, stealthy organised crime network in Italy and worldwide, upheld by the omertà (silence) code. This is the story of the women who broke the silence.
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Reversible Destiny
Reversible Destinytraces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War era, and the sad reality that repressing it easily risks harming vulnerable people and communities. Charting the efforts of both the judiciary and a citizen's social movement to reverse the mafia's economic, political, and cultural power, the authors establish a framework for understanding both the difficulties and the accomplishments of Sicily's multifaceted antimafia efforts.
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Mafia movies : a reader
\"The mafia has always fascinated filmmakers and television producers. Al Capone, Salvatore Giuliano, Lucky Luciano, Ciro Di Marzio, Roberto Saviano, Don Vito and Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are some of the historical and fictional figures that contribute to the myth of the Italian and Italian-American mafias perpetuated onscreen. This collection looks at mafia movies and television over time and across cultures, from the early classics to the Godfather trilogy and contemporary Italian films and television series. The only comprehensive collection of its type, Mafia Movies treats over fifty films and TV shows created since 1906, while introducing Italian and Italian-American mafia history and culture. The second edition includes new original essays on essential films and TV shows that have emerged since the publication of the first edition, such as Boardwalk Empire and Mob Wives, as well as a new roundtable section on Italy's \"other\" mafias in film and television, written as a collaborative essay by more than ten scholars. The edition also introduces a new section called \"Double Takes\" that elaborates on some of the most popular mafia films and TV shows (e.g. The Godfather and The Sopranos) organized around themes such as adaptation, gender and politics, urban spaces, and performance and stardom.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Italian women at war
\"Italian Women at War explores Italian women's participation in war and conflict throughout Italy's modern history, beginning with the Unification and ending with the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, which focus on both historical and fictional figures, help to further the discussion on women's participation in violence, warfare (both conventional and unconventional), and political protest throughout Italy\"--Provided by publisher.
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Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily
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.
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