This book is an account both of the old Mafia of the Godfather and of its transformation into a network of gangsters and capitalists today, posing a major threat to democratic politics. The new Mafia combines large-scale business and banking activity with drug dealing, political corruption and widespread violence. Powerful, ruthless and rich, it has convulsed Southern Italy with a spate of murders. Its victims include an MP, a celebrated general, judges and prosecutors, policemen and ordinary citizens. It has turned itself into an entrepreneurial machine of a formidable kind, enjoying advantages denied to ordinary capitalist companies.

Mafia Business: The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (English and Italian Edition)

ARLACCHI, PINO

Oxford Univ. Pr.

The nature of traditional societies in Mediterranean countries and the effect on those societies brought about in the twentieth century, have long been debated; but in general these debates has started from an assumption of the relatively homogenous nature of traditional peasant society. In this book Pino Arlacchi demolishes that assumption by demonstrating that within the Italian region of Calabria there existed not one but a range of 'traditional' societies. This book will be of interest to a wide range of sociologists, anthropologists, historians and development economists concerned with the nature of traditional societies and the impact of modernisation on them. Written in a vivd style and offering fascinating insights into the people and history of Calabria, the book will also appeal to general readers interested in the Italian south and the mafia.

Mafia, Peasants and Great Estates: Society in Traditional Calabria

History

Europe

Cambridge University Press

Business & Money

Economics

<p>The startling 1992 confessions of Antonino Calderone, a boss in the Sicilian Mafia, provide a behind-the-scenes look at la Cosa Nostra that reveals the Mafia's history, organization, and worldwide influence. 35,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.</p>

Men of Dishonor: Inside the Sicilian Mafia : An Account of Antonino Calderone

Biographies & Memoirs

Calderone, Antonino

True Crime

William Morrow & Co.

Verso Books

La mafia imprenditrice: L'etica mafiosa e lo spirito del capitalismo (Contemporanea) (Italian Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Il Mulino

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