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Podcast: New Books in Italian Studies
Episode: John Dickie, “Mafia Republic: Italy’s Criminal Curse” (Sceptre, 2014)
Description: Mafia Republic: Italy’s Criminal Curse (Sceptre, 2013) is the second book by John Dickie on the history of the three organized crime groups from Southern Italy: the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra, the ‘Ndrangheta from Calabria and the Camorra from Naples. Dickie has an advantage over other researchers in organized crime by being able to read the Italian sources in the original. This puts him in a position to provide an English language book that has more detail and local characters than other authors. The book sets out the history of the three groups from the...