Fascism and the Mafia

by Christopher Duggan

Although the Sicilian Mafia is a subject of endless fascination, few serious books have been written about it. In this provocative work, Christopher Duggan argues that the idea of the Sicilian Mafia is a fiction, born of political calculation and genuine misunderstanding of the behavior of Sicilians. The book consists of two parts. The first looks at the development of the idea of the Mafia from the 1860s, when the term first appeared, to the Second...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300043724
• ISBN13: 9780300043723
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"