| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Palermo crucible -- The genesis of the mafia -- The mafia and the cold war -- The cultural production of violence -- Seeking causes, casting blame -- Mysteries and poisons -- The antimafia movement -- Backlash and renewal -- Civil society groundwork -- Recuperating the built environment -- "Cultural re-education" -- Reversible destiny. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mafia -- Italy -- Palermo -- History.
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Mafia. |
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Italy -- Palermo. |
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History. |
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Palermo (Italy) -- History.
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Palermo (Italy) -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Schneider, Peter T., 1933-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schneider, Jane, 1938- Reversible destiny. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520221001 (DLC) 2002013905 (OCoLC)50510779 |
| ISBN |
9780520929494 (electronic book) |
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0520929497 (electronic book) |
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0585466165 (electronic book) |
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9780585466163 (electronic book) |
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1597348708 |
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9781597348706 |
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0520221001 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520236092 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1282356992 |
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9781282356993 |
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