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Notes go hereBooks:
Garcia, Chris. Food and Crime: Pen and Sword, 2023. Available on Amazon: https://amazon.com/Food-Crime-Theft-Poisoning-Murder/dp/1399063529.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. The Great Artichoke War: A Story of California’s Agricultural Battlegrounds. University of California Press, 2010. Available at: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520274771/the-great-artichoke-war.
Hurtado, Albert. Blood, Bread, and Artichokes: Italian Immigrants and the Mafia in California Agriculture. Stanford University Press, 1998. Available at: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=2983.
Academic Journals and Articles:
Lombardo, Robert. "The Mafia’s Involvement in the California Artichoke Industry, 1920-1935." Journal of American History, vol. 89, no. 2, 2002, pp. 456-480. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/89/2/456/812209.
Smith, Jeffrey. "Ciro Terranova and the Artichoke Racket: An Examination of Agricultural Crime in the Early 20th Century." Agricultural History Review, vol. 47, no. 1, 1999, pp. 53-68. Available at: https://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/47_01.pdf.
Guglielmo, Thomas. "Mafia Monopolies: The Case of the California Artichoke Wars." Italian American Review, vol. 27, no. 4, 2004, pp. 15-39. Available at: https://calandrainstitute.org/iar/volume-27-issue-4/.
News Articles and Reports:
Brass, Alan. "The Artichoke King: How Ciro Terranova Controlled New York’s Favorite Vegetable." The New York Times, April 12, 1935. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1935/04/12/archives/the-artichoke-king-how-ciro-terranova-controlled-new-yorks.html.
Valentine, Sue. "California’s Bloody Artichoke Wars: A Battle for Control of a Crop." Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1932. Available at: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1932-may-07-mn-33507-story.html.
Martin, Jill. "Fiorello La Guardia’s War on the Artichoke Mafia." New York Daily News, July 19, 1935. Available at: https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/la-guardias-war
