false 7857 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 7857 1 10886 9 2007 In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire total:44|5:9|4:24|3:9|2:2| 44 172 104 13 5289 3.95 2189 368 23374040 1191018 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 4 1 false Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat May 31 08:40:46 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 08:51:20 -0700 2008 In Praise of Barbarians is a collection of articles written by Mike Davis, most for the journal Socialist Review. Davis is a socialist writer living in San Diego. He's been an activist since his high school days, once serving as southern California organizer for the SDS in the mid 1960s.

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No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 4 1 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 10:04:17 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 10:06:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 19253288 926774 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 4 1 false Sat Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 19:23:36 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 19:38:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 62128372 1058994 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 3 0 false Sat Jul 04 11:11:32 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 16:23:55 -0700 2009 Those were the best parts of this collection--the IWW, the anarchist as...more...]]> 53779673 1418009 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 3 0 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 23 19:01:30 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 21:47:52 -0700 2009 35272879 1619492 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 3 0 false Tue Oct 14 08:10:32 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 08:20:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 58785945 2385375 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 5 0 false Thu Jun 18 18:38:59 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 16:00:19 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 18:38:59 -0700 2009 32671065 1152195 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 5 1 false Sat Sep 20 19:21:53 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 23:26:30 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 19:21:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 23203622 1045335 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 0 0 false Thu May 29 06:00:31 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 06:00:40 -0700 2008 Chomsky suggested, among others "In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire" by Mike Davis. ]]> 28058864 8351 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 2 0 false Sat Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 09:52:31 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 11:22:00 -0700 2008 18515136 1019174 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 3 0 false Mon Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 10:38:50 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 08:54:42 -0700 2008 9883293 57530 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 4 0 false Thu Jan 10 09:25:24 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 03 10:18:23 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 10:18:23 -0800 2007 12569826 676532 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 3 0 false Tue Jan 15 08:06:21 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 08:06:34 -0800 2008 79988918 3012375 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 0 0 false Sat Dec 05 12:34:54 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 12:34:54 -0800 2009 79128959 241328 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 0 0 false Fri Nov 27 11:44:13 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 11:44:49 -0800 2009 77719255 1339940 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 0 0 false Fri Nov 13 20:58:40 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 20:58:40 -0800 2009 77108571 1769474 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 0 0 false Sun Nov 08 11:10:02 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 11:10:02 -0800 2009 73241955 2366630 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

]]> 2007 0 0 false Fri Oct 02 15:55:35 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 15:55:47 -0700 2009 72198084 2731563 7857 1931859426 9781931859424 13 <![CDATA[In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364s/7857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7857.In_Praise_of_Barbarians_Essays_against_Empire 3.91 44 The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and "teeny-bopper" riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers "Private Ivan," who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak.

No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

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No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in San Diego.

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