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Author Schneider, Jane, 1938-

Title Reversible destiny : mafia, antimafia, and the struggle for Palermo / Jane C. Schneider [and] Peter T. Schneider
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Mafia -- Italy -- Palermo -- History
TRUE CRIME -- Organized Crime.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Mafia
Politics and government
Maffia.
SUBJECT Palermo (Italy) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097159
Palermo (Italy) -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99012439
Subject Italy -- Palermo
Palermo.
Genre/Form Electronic book
History
Form Electronic book
Author Schneider, Peter T., 1933-
ISBN 9780520929494
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9786612356995
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