Shadows beneath Lemon Trees : Mafia Origins in Sicily Peasant Justice That Became Transnational Criminal Empire.DE

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Epubli, 2026

3565451378 / 9783565451371

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book examines how the dappled shadows beneath Sicily's lemon groves conceal the origins of a protection paradigm that evolved from peasant justice into a transnational criminal empire, tracing the quiet transformation where communal security needs were exploited to build enduring underworld power.Following Italy's 1861 unification, Sicily's central authority collapsed as Bourbon rule ended and the new state failed to establish control. This power vacuum led absentee landlords to hire armed enforcers known as \*gabellotti\* to defend estates from bandits, evolving from estate-specific security into interlocking clans offering cross-territorial arbitration and enforcement-laying the foundation for the Mafia's infrastructure.Sicily's 19th-century citrus boom, vital for preventing scurvy in the British Royal Navy, generated wealth requiring protection and inviting exploitation. As absentee landlords expanded lemon groves, their private forces shifted from estate guards to profit-sharing syndicates managing distribution and disputes, while the Mafia extorted harvest shares and imposed protection rackets, creating cycles where agricultural capital directly funded underworld expansion and criminal capabilities secured gains for allied estates and merchants.When socialist Peasant Fasci emerged in the 1890s advocating land reform and workers' rights, alarmed landholders and authorities partnered with the Mafia to suppress the perceived threat. The Mafia's enforcement capacity made it a practical auxiliary against protests, granting it tacit legitimacy to expand while posing as a stabilizer-thereby embedding criminal governance into Sicily's social fabric through state-sanctioned repression of popular movements that inadvertently bolstered the very groups they aimed to counter.…

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Titolo
Shadows beneath Lemon Trees : Mafia Origins in Sicily Peasant Justice That Became Transnational Criminal Empire.DE
Autore
Trevor Foster
Editore
Epubli
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
3565451378
ISBN 13
9783565451371
Peso dell'articolo
679 grammi
Dimensioni
297x210x16 mm

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