1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006073540403321

Autore

Amin, Samir <1931- >

Titolo

Human resources Employment and Development Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress of the International Economic Association held in Mexico City, 1980 / Samir Amin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Martins's, 1984

Descrizione fisica

307 p. ; 21 cm

Disciplina

338.9

Locazione

DECTS

Collocazione

ISVE A02-85

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458997803321

Autore

Varese Federico

Titolo

Mafias on the move [[electronic resource] ] : how organized crime conquers new territories / / Federico Varese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-00127-6

9786613001276

1-4008-3672-7

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Disciplina

364.106

Soggetti

Mafia - History

Organized crime - History

Transnational crime - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One: Introduction -- Two: Mafia Transplantation -- Three: The `Ndrangheta in Piedmont and Veneto -- Four: The Russian Mafia in Rome and Budapest -- Five: Lessons from the Past: Sicilian Mafiosi in New York City and Rosario, circa 1880-1940 -- Six: The Future of the Mafias? Foreign Triads in China -- Seven: Mafia Origins, Transplantation, and the Paradoxes of Democracy -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the West. As Federico Varese explains in this compelling and daring book, the truth is more complicated. Varese has spent years researching mafia groups in Italy, Russia, the United States, and China, and argues that mafiosi often find themselves abroad against their will, rather than through a strategic plan to colonize new territories. Once there, they do not always succeed in establishing themselves. Varese spells out the conditions that lead to their long-term success, namely sudden market expansion that is neither exploited by local rivals nor blocked by authorities. Ultimately the inability of the state to govern economic transformations gives mafias their opportunity. In a series of matched comparisons, Varese charts the attempts of the Calabrese 'Ndrangheta to move to the north of Italy, and shows how the Sicilian mafia expanded to early twentieth-century New York, but failed around the same time to find a niche in Argentina. He explains why the Russian mafia failed to penetrate Rome but succeeded in Hungary. In a pioneering chapter on China, he examines the challenges that triads from Taiwan and Hong Kong find in branching out to the mainland. Based on ground-breaking field work and filled with dramatic stories, this book is both a compelling read and a sober assessment of the risks posed by globalization and immigration for the spread of mafias.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910418042803321

Autore

Akmir Youssef

Titolo

Entangled peripheries. New contributions to the history of Portugal and Morocco : Essays in homage to Eva Maria von Kemnitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Évora, : Publicações do Cidehus, 2020

ISBN

979-1-03-655893-1

Altri autori (Persone)

BarrosMaria Filomena Lopes de

Clarence-SmithWilliam G

CorreiaFernando Branco

EssounaniDriss

FelipeHelena de

García-PeredaIgnacio

Kemnitz †Prof. Dra. Eva-Maria von

MartínezFrancisco Javier

MolénatJean-Pierre

NevesRui Manuel Ramalho Ortigão

SidarusAdel

TavimJosé Alberto Rodrigues da Silva

Soggetti

History

11th-16th centuries

18th-20th centuries

circulations

entangled history

peripheries

Portuguese-Moroccan relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The main aim of this volume is to explore the continuity of Portuguese-Moroccan relations before and, especially, after the classic period of the 11th-16th centuries. Its title, “Entangled peripheries”, is a



conceptual attempt to account for the contradiction between the resilience of bilateral contacts and exchanges and its decreasing relevance for both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. Although most chapters focus on topics of the 18th-20th centuries, the contributions dealing with the medieval and early modern periods provide a long durée perspective typical of “entangled history”. Other distinctive elements of this historiographical current are also present, such as the circulations and networks of people and objects and the supranational and regional actors and processes, which help situate Portugal and Morocco as “peripheries”. The volume is divided in three sections: “Marginal circulations”, “Facts, histories, fictions” and “Beyond nationalism and colonialism”. The first one presents case-studies of displacements of ethnically or socially marginal groups between Morocco and Portugal between the 15th and the 20th centuries. The last section’s examines how regional, imperial and global processes far outweighed bilateral relations across the Strait of Gibraltar both before and after the classic period of the 11th-16th centuries. Finally, the middle section of this volume engages with the “entangled peripheries” approach not literally as the other two but in a meta-sense, by focusing on historical sources, historiography and historical fiction.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698064903321

Autore

Lake Mark S

Titolo

Stability and dynamic analysis of a slender column with curved longitudinal stiffeners [[electronic resource] /] / Mark S. Lake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hampton, Va. : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, , [1989]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 59 pages : digtial, PDF file

Collana

NASA technical memorandum ; ; 101636

Soggetti

Large space structures (Astronautics) - Design and construction

Columns

Computer programs

Dynamic characteristics

Stiffening

Structural stability

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Feb. 10, 2009)

"August 1989."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-48).