Beneath Shadows by Foster (25 results)

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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 306 pages. There are no marks or writing in the book. Corners are square. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine is tight and there are no loose pages. Dust jacket has light shelf wear. Light wear top of spine. Cover colors are bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 0312643365 First edition, First printing. NOT REMAINDER marked. NOT ex library. Not Book Club. Packed in a box. Number line starting with a (1). Fine/Fine.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NF/NF. First edition, first printing. 306 pp.

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. 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.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.