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Reversible Destiny. Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#264688
Titel	Reversible Destiny. Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
Auteur	Schneider, jane G. & Peter T. Schneider
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	University of California Press
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	0520236092
ISBN13	9780520236097
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Reversible Destiny traces 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 an... (Lees verder)d the accomplishments of Sicily's multifaceted antimafia efforts.
Pagina's	339
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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