Full name: Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb

Author: Mike Davis Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781844671328 1844672948 1844671321

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 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 lifestyles, as privileged centers of power increasingly surround themselves with "rings of steel" against a weapon that nevertheless seems impossible to defeat. Similar books: Blood and Rage by Michael Burleigh City of Quartz by Mike Davis Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis Planet of Slums by Mike Davis The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer Catastrophe by David Keys Civilization by Roger Osborne Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare by John Toohey Cotton by Stephen Yafa Dying to Win by Robert A. Pape The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn The Age of Sacred Terror by Daniel Benjamin Eyewitness to History by John Carey Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman Generation Kill by Evan Wright The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk