"The history of mass-market diamonds goes back to German imperialism in Southwest Africa. Corporate power and state violence combined in the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples, whose mineral-rich land supplied budding consumer demand in the United States. Steven Press makes clear that mass...

1. The ABCs of a comparative economic history of organized crime : a national and transnational approach -- 2. Italian mafias -- 3. Russian mafias --4. Vignette : the Albanian mafia -- 5. US mafia -- 6. The Mexican drug cartels -- 7. Vignette : organized crime in Canada -- 8. The Colombian drug...