Challenging the Mafia Mystique Cosa Nostra from Legitimisation to De
The Sicilian Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is one of the most intriguing criminal phenomena in the world. It is an unparalleled organised criminal grouping that over almost two centuries has been able not only to successfully permeate licit and illicit economy,
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Challenging the Mafia Mystique Cosa Nostra from Legitimisation to Denunciation Rino Coluccello Coventry University, UK
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Contents Preface
viii
Acknowledgements
x
Introduction
1
1 The Origins of the Mafia as a Criminal Phenomenon and as a Spirit
6
2 The Abolition of Feudalism, Mafia in the Unified Kingdom and I Mafiusi di la Vicaria
17
3 Public and Private Enquiries on the Criminal Consortium ... but the Mafia Doesn’t Exist
36
4 Mafia and Politics in Sicilian Society at the End of the 19th Century: The Notarbartolo Affair, the Formation of ‘Sicilianism’ and Consolidation of the Mafia Mystique
59
5 The Literature of Defence and the ‘Heresy’ of Don Sturzo
70
6 The Popular Legitimisation of the Mafia: The Beati Paoli and the Mafioso as an Avenger
89
7 Fascism and the Surrender of the Mafia, the Allied Invasion and the Return of the Villains
118
8 The Breaking Point: Danilo Dolci and a New Image of the Mafia
145
9 Leonardo Sciascia: The Writer as the Public Conscience
178
Conclusion
216
Notes
225
Bibliography
239
Index
251
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Preface With a turnover estimated at over 180 billion euros (Unimpresa 2014), which allegedly accounts for
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