John Dickie

Mafia Brotherhoods: Camorra, mafia, 'ndrangheta: the rise of the Honoured Societies

Camorra, mafia, 'ndrangheta: the rise of the Honoured Societies

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Produktbeschreibung

The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA explores the previously underexposed mafias of Southern Italy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780340963944
• ISBN-10: 0340963948
• Artikelnr.: 26841961

Autorenporträt

John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College London. Hodder & Stoughton published his Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia in 2004, to ecstatic reviews. It became an international bestseller, with over 20 translations, and won the CWA Dagger Award for Non-fiction that year. Since then he has published Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and their Food (2007) - now a six-part TV series for HIstory Channel Italia and other networks worldwide. His most recent books are Mafia Brotherhoods (2011) and Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse (2013). In 2005 the President of the Italian Republic appointed him a Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana.