Download or read book Mafia, Peasants and Great Estates written by Pino Arlacchi and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1983 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of traditional Mediterranean societies and the effect on them brought about in the twentieth century, has long been debated; but in general stem from an assumption of the relatively homogenous nature of traditional peasant society. Pino Arlacchi demolishes that assumption by demonstrating that within the Italian region of Calabria there existed not one but a range of 'traditional' societies.