Buda's Wagon A Brief History of the Car Bomb

Name: Buda's Wagon A Brief History of the Car Bomb
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ISBN: 9781844672943

ISBN-10: 1844672948

ISBN-13: 9781844672943

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mike Davis

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History of the car bomb traces the political development of this influential weapon of terror and resistance. Winner of the 2007 Lannan Literary Award for Non-Fiction. In this brilliant and disturbing history, Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agencies--particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan--in globalizing urban terrorist techniques. Davis argues that it is the incessant impact of car bombs, rather than the more apocalyptic threats of nuclear or bio-terrorism, that is changing cities and urban lifestyle, as privileged centers of power increasingly surround themselves with…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 9/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Figures and Tables



Wall Street 1920



Poor Man's Air Force



Preliminary Detonations



Oranges for Jaffa



Our Man in Saigon



Festivals de Plastique



Demon Seeds



Welcome to Bombsville



"The Black Stuff"



Laughing at the Dead



Hell's Kitchen



The Beirut Hilton



Car-Bomb University



The Suicide Tigers



Soft Targets



Los Coches Bomba



Cities under Siege



Form Follows Fear



Killing Bush, Bombing Oklahoma



Planet Jihad



The King of Iraq



The Gates of Hell


Notes


Index