Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily: Second Edition

by Filippo Sabetti

He suggests that the mafia emerged only in some parts of Sicily and was never a single overarching criminal organization. It arose, in fact, from a self-help tradition that eventually became corrupted and ultimately a burden on most villagers - land workers and proprietors alike. The local antimafia forces also became a drain on village life and by the middle of the 1950s both the mafia and the antimafia, far from destroying one another, had vanquished...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773524754
• ISBN13: 9780773524750
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"