Reversible destiny : mafia, antimafia, and the struggle for Palermo /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2003.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pns8w |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520929494 0520929497 0585466165 9780585466163 1597348708 9781597348706 9780520221000 0520221001 9780520236097 0520236092 9786612356995 6612356995 1282356992 9781282356993 |