Mike Davis

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born

January 01, 1946 in Fontana, California, The United States

gender

male

genre

Social Sciences, History, Science Fiction & Fantasy

influences

Lewis Mumford, Garrett Eckbo, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky

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Social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California.

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Books by Mike Davis

Average rating: 3.94 · 3,891 ratings · 571 reviews · 81 distinct works

	City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 4.03 avg rating — 1,169 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Planet of Slums 3.83 avg rating — 735 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster 4.01 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World 4.00 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City by Mike Davis, Roman De LA Campa (Foreword by) 3.65 avg rating — 187 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Dead Cities: And Other Tales 4.01 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb 3.82 avg rating — 138 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire 3.86 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu 3.33 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics & Economy in the History of the U. S. Working Class 4.24 avg rating — 37 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Mike Davis

“The car bomb is the poor man’s air force.”
― Mike Davis

tags: freedom-fighter , guerilla , resistance , tactics , terrorism

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