| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781844672943 | | Publisher: Verso | | Publish Date: 8/31/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 208126807 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 5L x 0.75T | | Pages: 224 |
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| | | History of the car bomb traces the political development of this influential weapon of terror and resistance. Winner of the 2007 Lannan Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
In this brilliant and disturbing history, Mike Davis traces the car bomb''s 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 lifestyle, as privileged centers of power increasingly surround themselves with "rings of steel" against a weapon that nevertheless seems impossible to defeat.
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Historian Mike Davis examines the use of the car bomb as a weapon of choice for political ends, beginning with a 1920 Wall Street explosion that gives the book its title. Davis has researched car bombings all over the globe, searching for commonalities that can provide lessons for the present and future. He focuses on the individuals who committed the acts, the political contexts in which they occurred, and the responses by the government and the public. Davis's history of bombing is grim and graphic, as he peels away layers of visceral emotion and strives to find meaning, if not sense, in the complexities that come from the deployment of a simple and terrifying vehicle.
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