Reviews of the first edition: "Sabetti's revolutionary analysis shakes up the conventional wisdom, calls into question acquired knowledge thought to be unassailably true forever, and forces us all to rethink the history of Sicily and the mafia." Saverio Di Bella, University of Messina Center for the Study of Mafia Criminality "An important study. Sabetti successfully challenges a number of well-entrenched assumptions about Sicilian and southern Italian politics." International Journal of Comparative Sociology "An informative and detailed analysis of a single, small village in central Sicily ... The primary data used by Sabetti are quite varied and more complete than any other book on the subject. He has made excellent use of the literature. But it is the idea, the imagination of the work that is even more impressive for it actually explains the currents of authority." International Migration Review