Rebels and Mafiosi : : Death in a Sicilian Landscape /

Rebels and Mafiosi : : Death in a Sicilian Landscape / / James Fentress.

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 locat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Fentress, James,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2000
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 3 maps, 18 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Setting: Sicily before the Mafia
  • 2. The 1848 Revolt
  • 3. The 1860 Revolution
  • 4. 1866: The Sette Mezzo Uprising and the Week’s Republic in Palermo
  • 5. Cosche and Mafiusi
  • 6. Violent Brotherhoods: The Mafia from 1866 to the Stoppaglieri
  • 7. Violent Brotherhoods: The Mafia from 1866 to the Stoppaglieri
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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