Buda's wagon : a brief history of the car bomb
Davis, Mike, 1946-2017
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In this provocative 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 globalising 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 lifestyles, as privileged centres of power increasingly surround themselves with 'rings of steel' against a weapon that nevertheless seems impossible to defeat.
Main title:
Buda's wagon : a brief history of the car bomb / Mike Davis.
Author:
Davis, Mike, 1946-, author
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2017.
Collation:
x, 228 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2007.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781784786632 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
623.45209
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
353540
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