The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States - Brossura

Nelli, Humbert S.

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ISBN 10: 0226571327 ISBN 13: 9780226571324

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1981

Riassunto

"Dr. Nelli . . . describes the kinds of crime that prevailed in Italian immigrant enclaves in America; like most American crime, then as now, Italian crime was one aspect of the so-called culture of urban poverty—boys graduated from street gangs to criminal gangs. None of these gangs were very big until Prohibition brought the Great Leap Forward, to a level that Dr. Nelli calls 'entrepreneurial crime.' His fine account makes sense of many murderous incidents, differentiates among places, and sketches individuals and the talents (Torrio's brains, Capone's brutality) that enabled them to rise in the underworld."—New Yorker

"A definitive history of organized crime in America."—American Historical Review

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Humbert S. Nelli is professor of history at the University of Kentucky.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0226571327
• ISBN 13: 9780226571324
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 328