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Author Davis, Mike, 1946-

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

Imprint London : Verso, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  623.45209 D295b 2007    ---  Available
Description x, 228 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-220) and index.
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.
Subject Vehicle bombs -- History.
Vehicle bombs -- Social aspects.
Terrorism -- History.
Terrorism -- Social aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
ISBN 1844671321 (hbk.)
9781844671328 (hbk.)
Standard No. YDXCP 2502973
NLGGC 300372019

 
    
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