Mike Davis
Born
in Fontana, California, The United States
March 10, 1946
Died
October 25, 2022
Genre
Influences
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
40 editions
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1990
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Planet of Slums
34 editions
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2006
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
28 editions
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2000
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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
16 editions
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1998
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Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb
16 editions
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2007
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
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7 editions
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2020
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Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class
12 editions
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1986
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City
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12 editions
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2000
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Dead Cities
12 editions
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2002
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Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory
6 editions
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2018
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“If the history of British rule in India were to be condensed into a single fact, it is this: there was no increase in India’s per capita income from 1757 to 1947.”
― Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
― Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
“Despite the wishful thinking of evangelicals impatient for the Rapture or deep ecologists who believe that Gaia would be happiest with a thin sprinkling of hunter-gatherers, megacities like Los Angeles will never simply collapse and disappear. Rather, they will stagger on, with higher body counts and greater distress, through a chain of more frequent and destructive encounters with disasters of all sorts; while vital parts of the region’s high-tech and tourist economies eventually emigrate to safer ground, together with hundreds of thousands of its more affluent residents.”
― Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
― Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
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