A gripping and deeply researched exploration of the hidden influence of organized crime on the global economy that reveals the mafia as an uncredited architect of modern society.In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras takes readers on a fascinating journey into the shadowy world of organized crime and its far-reaching impact on contemporary society. From backroom deals to global power plays, this compelling narrative spans two centuries, unraveling the c...

'A book of such hugely ambitious scope**’** Financial Times‘Gingeras’s riveting book delves into the murky origins, effects and legacies of the most terrifying figures in the history of crime’ The i‘Gingeras writes well and joins the historical dots' TelegraphFew forces have shaped our world as powerfully – or as secretly – as mafias.Groups such as La Cosa Nostra, ...

La Cosa Nostra (Itália), Cartel de Medellín (Colômbia), Cinco Famílias de Nova Iorque (EUA), yakuza (Japão), vory (Rússia). Todos sabemos da existência destes grupos e do tipo de atividades que exercem, mas poucos conseguem imaginar até que ponto foram determinantes na formação de nações, na organização de sociedades e no crescimento de economias. Máfia: Uma História Global reconstitui as circunstâncias culturais e sociais em que as grandes organizações criminosas floresceram na Europa, na...

**'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New Statesman**The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruling over the Holy Sites and, as Caliph, the ...

De la Cosa Nostra a los cárteles globales: la historia del poder oculto que moldea nuestro mundoDetrás de los grandes relatos de progreso y modernidad, late una historia clandestina: la de las mafias que moldean nuestras sociedades. Esta investigación, valiente y minuciosa a partes iguales, reconstruye su evolución desde los comienzos del siglo XIX, cuando surgieron las fuerzas políticas y económicas que harían posible su desarrollo y expansión. Ryan Gingeras acomp...

Das neue Standardwerk über Mafia, Syndikate, Gangs und KartelleDie organisierte Kriminalität ist ein weltweites Milliardengeschäft. Die internationalen Aktivitäten der Kartelle als Drogenhändler, Waffenschieber, Kapitalanlagebetrüger, als Geldwäscher oder Betreiber von Prostitutionsringen sind weitreichend. Von den zuständigen Behörden sind sie kaum zu fassen. Waren die kriminellen Machenschaften zunächst noch sehr lokal ausgerichtet, entwickelten sich nach dem 2. ...

El Imperio otomano era una de las grandes fuerzas de la historia de Europa desde la Edad Media. En 1914 había perdido mucho territorio, pero seguía siendo el Estado más grande de Europa después de Rusia. El imperio, que se extendía desde el mar Adriático hasta el océano Índico, era una gran entidad política y religiosa, puesto que el sultán gobernaba los Lugares Sagrados y, como califa, era el sucesor del profeta Mahoma. Sin embargo, la fatídica decisión del imperio de apoyar a Austria-Hun...

Er zijn maar weinig organisaties die onze wereld zo sterk – en zo heimelijk – hebben gevormd als de maffia laat historicus Ryan Gingeras zien in zijn nieuwe boek. Groepen zoals cosa nostra, het Medellín-kartel, de Five Families van New York, de Japanse yakuza en de Russische vory zijn beroemd én berucht. Toch wordt hun rol in de vorming van naties, economieën en samenlevingen zelden erkend.Van struikrovers tot hedendaagse ‘maffiastaten’, Gingeras schetst een meeslepend panorama van...

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans and Middle East, the death throes of sultanate encompassed a series of wars, insurrections, and revolutions spanning the early twentieth century. This volume encompasses a full accounting of the political, economic, social, and international forces that brought about the passing of the Ottoman state. In surveying the many tragedies that transp...

'A book of such hugely ambitious scope**’** Financial Times‘Gingeras’s riveting book delves into the murky origins, effects and legacies of the most terrifying figures in the history of crime’ The i‘Gingeras writes well and joins the historical dots' TelegraphFew forces have shaped our world as powerfully – or as secretly – as mafias.Groups such as La Cosa Nostra, ...

Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics. Turkey's underworld, which has been at the heart of several devastating scandals over the last several decades, is strongly tied to the country's long history of opium production and heroin trafficking. As an industry at the centre of the Ottoman Empire's long transiti...

A gripping and deeply researched exploration of the hidden influence of organized crime on the global economy that reveals the mafia as an uncredited architect of modern society.In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras takes readers on a fascinating journey into the shadowy world of organized crime and its far-reaching impact on contemporary society. From backroom deals to global power plays, this compelling narrative spans two centuries, unraveling the c...