Reviews for Un monde méditerranéen

The average rating for Un monde méditerranéen based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-03-17 00:00:00 Heather Rinehart The scope of James Fentress's Rebels and Mafiosi is much wider than the title would have you believe. It is an essential survey of the sociopolitical landscape of Sicily in the nineteenth century, a turbulent epoch of sweeping change. Violent conflicts between revolutionaries, reformers, policemen, roving militias, prisoners, bandits, peasants and mafiosi played out in a charged atmosphere of feudal exploitation and advancing modernization. Fentress puts the reader in the boots of all these players and shows how closely they were connected, vividly filling in the backstories of the fall of the Bourbons, the unification of Italy, and the birth of Cosa Nostra. Numerous illustrations and maps are mere icing on the cake in this important work. Whether it's Sicilian history you seek of the true origins of the Mafia, neither can be fully understood without this important book.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-05-17 00:00:00 Jacqueline Hedrick I guess this book has its virtues, but for me it was far too detailed and contained way too many names. I couldn't finish it. I wish the author had focused on a smaller part of the history of the mafia.