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Magnates, bandoleers, politicians, drug traffickers, clerics, and public figures comprise this history of the Sicilian Mafia. More than being merely an amalgamation of stories about organized crime, this history of the Sicilian Mafia is dense with political and social analysis. Analyzing historical documents, this book investigates the criminal processes that originated in Italy and, through formal and informal alliances, have spread to the international community.
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Employing 286 scholars, this two volume encyclopedia contains entries on post-World War II European political history and groups, significant events and persons, the economy, religion, education, the arts, women's issues, writers, and more.
The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980s. Infamous around the world for a campaign of assassinations, kidnappings, and bank robberies intended as a "concentrated strike against the heart of the State," the Red Brigades' most notorious crime was the kidnapping and murder of Italy's former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978. In the late 1990s, a new group of violent anticapitalist terrorists revived the name Red Brigades and killed a number of professors and government officials. Like their German counterparts in the Baader-Meinhof Group and today's violent political and religious extremists, the Red Brigades and their actions rais...
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship discusses the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. The work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past.