Fascism and the Mafia

Name: Fascism and the Mafia
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ISBN: 9780300043723

ISBN-10: 0300043724

ISBN-13: 9780300043723

Edition: 1989

Authors: Christopher Duggan

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The Sicilian mafia is a subject of endless fascination, but few serious books have been written about it. In this provocative work, Christopher Duggan argues that the idea of the mafia is a fiction, born of political calculation and genuine misunderstanding of the behaviour of Sicilians. The first part of the book looks at the development of the idea of the mafia from the 1860s, when the term first appeared, to the Second World War. Although all serious observers realised that there was no organised criminal society in Sicily, Duggan explains why the idea was perpetuated. When the island became part of unified Italy in 1860, hostility to the new state was claimed by officials to be…

Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/10/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 356
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.95" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Christopher Duggan is Professor of Modern Italian History at the University of Reading