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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.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) : illustrations, maps
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.
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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.
Subject Mafia -- Italy -- Palermo -- History.
Palermo (Italy) -- History.
Palermo (Italy) -- Politics and government.
TRUE CRIME -- Organized Crime.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Mafia. (OCoLC)fst01005389
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Italy -- Palermo. (OCoLC)fst01204982
Maffia.
Palermo.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Schneider, Peter T., 1933-
Other Form: Print version: Schneider, Jane, 1938- Reversible destiny. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520221001 (DLC) 2002013905 (OCoLC)50510779
ISBN 9780520929494 (electronic bk.)
0520929497 (electronic bk.)
0585466165 (electronic bk.)
9780585466163 (electronic bk.)
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