Mafia: A Global History
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Mafia: A Global History
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Nathan Osgood
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Ryan Gingeras
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'A book of such hugely ambitious scope’ Financial Times
‘Mafia is an excellent history of all things murderous and mobster’ TLS
Few forces have shaped our world as powerfully – or as secretly – as mafias.
Ryan Gingeras draws on more than a decade of research to illuminate a suppressed underworld history. Crossing centuries and continents, he introduces legendary figures – Al Capone, Pablo Escobar, Du Yuesheng – and explores the conditions, cultures and locales that gave birth to modern mafias: Sicily, Marseille, New York, Colombia, Tokyo.
Beginning with bandits and brigands, and ending with today’s ‘mafia states’ – and the alarming blurring of lines between gangsters, corporations and political leaders – this sweeping narrative traces the evolution of organised crime in response to industrialisation, globalisation and technological change. By charting the story of mafias worldwide,Gingeras reveals not only where contemporary gangsters come from, but also how they claimed such a central role in our cultural imagination, and why they are the uncredited architects of the modern world.
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‘His ambitious new book . . . takes in organised criminals everywhere from Noo Yawk’s goodfellas through to the Chechen mob and the Medellín cocaine cartel, via Ned Kelly, Jamaican Yardies and the Yakuza . . . Gingeras writes well and joins the historical dots . . . for those who want to know how mafias began – especially those as fascinated by it all as Gingeras – this book may prove to be an offer they can’t refuse'
‘A book of such hugely ambitious scope . . . Gingeras is good on ways in which crime responds to the needs of particular cultures at particular times . . . and deploys contextual detail to vivid effect . . . Gingeras paints a convincing picture of an interconnected, increasingly diversified and truly global business which is tightly and apparently irrevocably intertwined, in so many different ways, with the apparatus of the state itself’
‘A history of mafias, suffused with violence, intrigue and secrecy, this is gripping, essential, global and just plain fascinating’ (Simon Sebag Montefiore)
‘An engaging book . . . Mafias have “reflected” and “helped define the making of the modern world”, Mr Gingeras contends, taking readers from classical Rome to modern Las Vegas to bolster his argument’
‘American professor and historian Ryan Gingeras charts a steady course between academic respectability and formulating the odd unexpected sentence that will rock you on your heels . . . The predominant tenor of this impressive book is not doom and gloom but sober realism. Mafias will be with us until men turn into angels’
‘Gingeras considers the rise of clientelist crime and corruption in southern Italy, the US, Southeast Asia and Latin America from the early nineteenth century to the present. He offers a Damon Runyonesque gallery of shakedown artists, payola sharks and nickel-and-dime mobsters . . . impressive . . . well-researched . . . Mafia is an excellent history of all things murderous and mobster’
‘Drawing on more than a decade of research to uncover the suppressed underworld history of mafias, historian Ryan Gingeras presents his findings in this global history of elusive organised crime . . . From ancient bandits to modern-day cartels, the history of the underworld reveals the true history of a nation, one that is often suppressed . . . the sweeping narrative follows the evolution of the criminal underworld across the globe’
'There is no doubting the author’s deep and wide knowledge of this topic, and his ability to convey his ideas in an accessible and engaging style'
‘Historian Gingeras (The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 2022) offers a historical deep dive into the murky world of gangland, from the gritty streets of the Five Points area of early twentieth-century New York City to ravaged, post-WWII Japan; from drug running to human trafficking. A valuable historical reference on organized crime’
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