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Buda'S Wagaon: A Breif History of the Car Bomb

by Mike Davis
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781844671328
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 192
  • Original Price: GBP 12.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 382 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Geopolitics

Celebrated urban historian returns with a compelling account of the poor man's airforce, from Vietnam to Beirut - Davis' most accessible book yet. On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street killing 40 people. Since Buda's prototype, the car bomb has evolved into a poor man's air force, a generic weapon of mass destruction that now craters cities from Bombay to Oklahoma City. In this brilliant and disturbing history, Mike Davis traces its worldwide 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 producing the most significant mutations in city form and urban lifestyle,

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.

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