Rebels and Mafiosi
Subtitle: Death in a Sicilian Landscape
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: April 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801435393
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; Political activism; Sicily; History: World; Italy - History; History - General History; Revolutions; Italy; Europe - Italy; General; 19th century; Government, Resistance to; History; Mafia
First sentence: In the spring of 1865 the prefect of Palermo was growing alarmed.
Description: "For centuries, Sicilian "men of honor" have fought the controls of government. Between 1820 and 1860, rebellions shook the island as these men joined with Sicily's intellectuals in the struggle for independence from the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples.

This lively account - the first to locate the emergence and evolution of the mafia in historical perspective - describes how those rebellions led to the birth of the modern mafia and traces the increasing influence of organized crime on the island."--BOOK JACKET.