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Buda's Wagon by Mike Davis
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
In this provocative 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 incessa ...Show more
Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human h ...Show more
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mik ...Show more
Set the Night on Fire - L. A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis; Jon Wiener
$54.99 NZD
Category: History
A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the Sixties Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power--where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was h ...Show more
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