Buda's wagon : a brief history of the car bomb / Mike Davis.

By:

Davis, Mike, 1946- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Verso, 2007Description: x, 228 pages ; illustrations, 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781844671328 (hbk.)
1844671321 (hbk.)
9788170463283

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

623.45209 DAV 23 016883

LOC classification:

TP270 .D367 2007

Contents:

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.

Summary: Celebrated urban historian, Mike Davis returns with a compelling account of the 'poor man's airforce', from Vietnam to Beirut.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	623.45209 DAV 016883 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016883

Celebrated urban historian, Mike Davis returns with a compelling account of the 'poor man's airforce', from Vietnam to Beirut.

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