The Resource The two mafias : a transatlantic history, 1888-2008, Salvatore Lupo
The two mafias : a transatlantic history, 1888-2008, Salvatore Lupo
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- Summary
- For many people, the term 'mafia' connotes a vast and powerful organization originating exclusively in southern Italy. In this bracing new history, however, renowned Italian historian Salvatore Lupo argues that a realistic understanding of the mafia phenomenon must avoid two seemingly opposed and persistent depictions: one of a single octopus extending its tentacles from Sicily to envelop the world, the other of thousands of small, localized groups operating in relative isolation. Instead, the mafia is best understood within the context of a network of overlapping business, municipal, and familial relationships and institutions. Mafia networks could cover a single rural village like a tight mesh, but they could also forge connections between areas as geographically remote as the Conca d'Oro citrus groves and the Brooklyn waterfront. Their influence extended not just from Italy to the United States, but in the other direction as well, and in both instances they occupied a hazy social space between legality and illegality. Moving from the first Italian immigrants of the 19th century to the most recent historical developments, Lupo's rigorous study reveals the mafia to be the result of a complex cultural and social encounter that was shaped by multiple, diverse environments.--
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 236 pages
- Note
- Translation of the author's Quando la mafia trovò l'America
- Contents
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- Amid the great flood of migrants
- Roaring twenties
- History and myths of organized crime
- The new world and the old world at war
- Looking for and at the enemy
- The last Sicilian wave
- Mafia's ideology
- Isbn
- 9781137491350
- Label
- The two mafias : a transatlantic history, 1888-2008
- Title
- The two mafias
- Title remainder
- a transatlantic history, 1888-2008
- Statement of responsibility
- Salvatore Lupo
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
- Summary
- For many people, the term 'mafia' connotes a vast and powerful organization originating exclusively in southern Italy. In this bracing new history, however, renowned Italian historian Salvatore Lupo argues that a realistic understanding of the mafia phenomenon must avoid two seemingly opposed and persistent depictions: one of a single octopus extending its tentacles from Sicily to envelop the world, the other of thousands of small, localized groups operating in relative isolation. Instead, the mafia is best understood within the context of a network of overlapping business, municipal, and familial relationships and institutions. Mafia networks could cover a single rural village like a tight mesh, but they could also forge connections between areas as geographically remote as the Conca d'Oro citrus groves and the Brooklyn waterfront. Their influence extended not just from Italy to the United States, but in the other direction as well, and in both instances they occupied a hazy social space between legality and illegality. Moving from the first Italian immigrants of the 19th century to the most recent historical developments, Lupo's rigorous study reveals the mafia to be the result of a complex cultural and social encounter that was shaped by multiple, diverse environments.--
- Assigning source
- Provided by Publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lupo, Salvatore
- Dewey number
- 364.106094580904
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Italian
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Italian and Italian American studies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mafia
- Mafia
- United States
- Sicily (Italy)
- Label
- The two mafias : a transatlantic history, 1888-2008, Salvatore Lupo
- Note
- Translation of the author's Quando la mafia trovò l'America
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Amid the great flood of migrants -- Roaring twenties -- History and myths of organized crime -- The new world and the old world at war -- Looking for and at the enemy -- The last Sicilian wave -- Mafia's ideology
- Control code
- FIEb17749931
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 236 pages
- Isbn
- 9781137491350
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)909321118
- Label
- The two mafias : a transatlantic history, 1888-2008, Salvatore Lupo
- Note
- Translation of the author's Quando la mafia trovò l'America
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Amid the great flood of migrants -- Roaring twenties -- History and myths of organized crime -- The new world and the old world at war -- Looking for and at the enemy -- The last Sicilian wave -- Mafia's ideology
- Control code
- FIEb17749931
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 236 pages
- Isbn
- 9781137491350
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)909321118
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