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Mafia: A Global History Category_ROMANCE/EROTICA uniquely unsentimental' GuardianFew forces have shaped our world as powerfully or as secretly as mafias. Groups such as La Cosa Nostra, the Medelln Cartel, New Yorks Five Families, the Japanese yakuza and Russian vory are notorious, endlessly covered in news stories and popular media. Yet when official histories are written, their role in shaping nations, economies and societies is rarely acknowledged. In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras draws on more than a decade of research