Fascism and the Mafia

by Christopher Duggan

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

• 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"