The Black Hand: Terror by Letter in Chicago
Author:   Robert M. Lombardo
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
ISBN:  

9780252076756


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   03 December 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Robert M. Lombardo
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780252076756


ISBN 10:   0252076753
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   03 December 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface   ix Introduction   1 1. Italians in Chicago   11 2. The White Hand Society   30 3. The Black Hand Squad   69 4. The Prohibition Years   107 5. The Causes of Black hand Extortion   119 6. The Social Construction of Deviance   161 Conclusion   194 Notes   205 Index   231

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Provides the definitive argument that this form of crime was not imported from Italy... This is a book that needed to be written two generations ago, one that everyone needs to read today to make up for lost time in extricating Italian Americans from the shadow of the Mafia. --Journal of Illinois History Lombardo recounts in fine and fascinating detail the dynamics of extortion in Chicago's immigrant Italian community, covering especially the 'hottest' years, 1907-12. --Italian American Review


Stimulating and informative. This book corrects the record of the criminological phenomenon of The Black Hand for the first time, and it presents the truth of its role in the immigrant Italian community in America. Arthur J. Bilek, author of The First Vice Lord: Big Jim Colosimo and the Ladies of the Levee


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Robert M. Lombardo is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Loyola University of Chicago and a former deputy chief of police for Cook County, Illinois.

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