Men Of Respect
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Men Of Respect
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Author : Raimondo Catanzaro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Men Of Respect written by Raimondo Catanzaro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Mafia categories.
Men Of Respect
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Author : Raimondo Catanzaro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Men Of Respect written by Raimondo Catanzaro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
The global crime organization which we know as the Mafia traces its origins to the orange groves of the Conca D'Oro, the rich hinterland of Palermo, Sicily, during the early nineteenth century. It was here that the "mafia of the gardens", made up of loose networks of bandits, built their industry of crime. In exploring the Mafia's remarkable rise to power, Raimondo Catanzaro shows how these rural bands successfully opposed the encroaching authority of the Italian government in Sicily during the 1840s, as they infiltrated it, took control of its agencies, and effectively replaced it as the force of law throughout the island. Unlike past chroniclers, Catanzaro sees no break between the traditional rural mafiosi of the nineteenth century and the flashy criminals of today. To the contrary, he demonstrates that the fluid and unstructured composition of the early Mafia enabled it to change its form and thereby survive the many lethal threats it encountered, where a more rigid and unified organization would have failed. This ability to adapt was never more apparent than during the Socialist movement of the Sicilian Fasci in the 1890s. While older, established mafiosi intimidated and murdered local party organizers, younger mafiosi extended the Mafia's power by joining and then subverting these political movements. In his presentation of the recent history of the Mafia Catanzaro makes particularly ingenious use of the Italian Parliament's 40,000 page Commissione Anti-Mafia report to trace the explosive growth of this criminal enterprise since World War II. Here his narrative details the increasing involvement of mafiosi in clandestine commerce, first of tobacco, and then, during the last twodecades, of drugs and arms. Catanzaro presents the hitherto untold story of an organization that continues to affect us to this day.
The Gangs Of St Louis
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Author : Daniel Waugh
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2010-04-02
The Gangs Of St Louis written by Daniel Waugh and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-02 with History categories.
St. Louis was a city under siege during Prohibition. Seven different criminal gangs violently vied for control of the town's illegal enterprises. Although their names (the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang, the Russo Gang, Egan's Rats, the Hogan Gang, the Cuckoo Gang and the Shelton Gang) are familiar to many, their exploits have remained largely undocumented until now. Learn how an awkward gunshot wound gave the Pillow Gang its name, and read why Willie Russo's bizarre midnight interview with a reporter from the St. Louis Star involved an automatic pistol and a floating hunk of cheese. From daring bank robberies to cold-blooded betrayals, The Gangs of St. Louis chronicles a fierce yet juicy slice of the Gateway City's history that rivaled anything seen in New York or Chicago.
A Man Of Respect
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Author : Darryl London
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
A Man Of Respect written by Darryl London and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Criminals categories.
Hidden Power
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Author : James Cockayne
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Hidden Power written by James Cockayne and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Political Science categories.
What should we make of the outsized role organized crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul? How can we deal with the convergence of politics and crime in so-called 'mafia states' such as Guinea-Bissau, North Korea or, as some argue, Russia? Drawing on unpublished government documents and mafia memoirs, James Cockayne discovers the strategic logic of organized crime, hidden in a century of forgotten political--criminal collaboration in New York, Sicily and the Caribbean. He reveals states and mafias competing - and collaborating -- in a competition for governmental power. He discovers mafias influencing elections, changing constitutions, organizing domestic insurgencies and transnational terrorism, negotiating peace deals, and forming governmental joint ventures with ruling groups. And he sees mafias working with the US government to spy on American citizens, catch Nazis, try to assassinate Fidel Castro, invade and govern Sicily, and playing unappreciated roles in the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Biographical Dictionary Of Eminent Men Of Fife
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Author : Matthew Forster Conolly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
Biographical Dictionary Of Eminent Men Of Fife written by Matthew Forster Conolly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Celebrities categories.
Biographical Dictionary Of Eminent Men Of Fife Etc
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Author : Matthew Forster CONOLLY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
Biographical Dictionary Of Eminent Men Of Fife Etc written by Matthew Forster CONOLLY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with categories.
The Godfather And Sicily
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Author : Raymond Angelo Belliotti
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2021-07-01
The Godfather And Sicily written by Raymond Angelo Belliotti and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this interdisciplinary work, Raymond Angelo Belliotti presents an interpretation of The Godfather as, among other things, a commentary on the transformation of personal identity within the Sicilian and Italian immigrant experience. The book explores both the novel and the film sequence in terms of an existential conflict between two sets of values that offer competing visions of the world: on the one hand, a nineteenth-century Sicilian perspective grounded in honor and the accumulation of power within a culturally specific family order; and on the other, a twentieth-century American perspective that celebrates individualism and commercial success. Analyzing concepts such as honor, power, will to power, respect, atonement, repentance, forgiveness, and a meaningful life, Belliotti applies these analyses to the cultural understandings transported to America by nineteenth-century Italian immigrants, casting fresh light on Old World allegiances to l'ordine della famiglia (the family order), la via vecchia (the old way), and the patriarchal ideal of uomo di pazienza (the man of patience), as well as the Sicilian code of honor. The two sets of values—Old World Sicilian and twentieth-century American—coalesce uneasily in the same cultural setting, and their conflict is irresolvable.
A Tribute Of Respect By The Citizens Of Troy
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Author : Troy (N.Y.). Citizens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
A Tribute Of Respect By The Citizens Of Troy written by Troy (N.Y.). Citizens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with categories.
Garden Of Eloquence Shuoyuan
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Author : Liu Xiang
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2022-01-16
Garden Of Eloquence Shuoyuan written by Liu Xiang and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-16 with Literary Collections categories.
In 17 BCE the Han dynasty archivist Liu Xiang presented to the throne a collection of some seven hundred items of varying length, mostly quasi-historical anecdotes and narratives, that he deemed essential reading for wise leadership. Garden of Eloquence (Shuoyuan), divided into twenty books grouped by theme, follows a tradition of narrative writing on historical and philosophical themes that began seven centuries earlier. Long popular in China as a source of allusions and quotations, it preserves late Western Han views concerning history, politics, and ethics. Many of its anecdotes are attributed to Confucius’s speeches and teachings that do not appear in earlier texts, demonstrating that long after Confucius’s death in 479 BCE it was still possible for new “historical” narratives to be created. Garden of Eloquence is valuable as a repository of items that originally appeared in other early collections that are no longer extant, and it provides detail on topics as various as astronomy and astrology, yin-yang theory, and quasi-geographical and mystical categories. Eric Henry’s unabridged translation with facing Chinese text and extensive annotation will make this important primary source available for the first time to Anglophone world historians.