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

by Peter T. Schneider, Jane C. Schneider, Jane Schneider

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520236092

ISBN13:9780520236097

Release Date:March 2003

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:0.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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