Buda's Wagon Pa

by Davis,Mike

• ISBN13: 9781844672943
• ISBN10: 1844672948
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

In this provocative history, Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide useand development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligenceagencies'”particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, andPakistan'”in globalizing urban terrorist techniques. Davis argues thatit is the incessant impact of car bombs, rather than the moreapocalyptic threats of nuclear or bio-terrorism, that is changingcities and urban lifestyles, as privileged centers of powerincreasingly surround themselves with 'rings of steel' against a weaponthat nevertheless seems impossible to defeat.

Author Biography

Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa’aloa, Hawaii.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables	p. ix
Wall Street 1920	p. 1
Poor Man's Air Force	p. 4
Preliminary Detonations	p. 13
Oranges for Jaffa	p. 18
Our Man in Saigon	p. 28
Festivals de Plastique	p. 32
Demon Seeds	p. 38
Welcome to Bombsville	p. 43
"The Black Stuff"	p. 53
Laughing at the Dead	p. 61
Hell's Kitchen	p. 67
The Beirut Hilton	p. 78
Car-Bomb University	p. 90
The Suicide Tigers	p. 97
Soft Targets	p. 103
Los Coches Bomba	p. 109
Cities under Siege	p. 116
Form Follows Fear	p. 130
Killing Bush, Bombing Oklahoma	p. 139
Planet Jihad	p. 156
The King of Iraq	p. 170
The Gates of Hell	p. 188
Notes	p. 196
Index	p. 221
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