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Mike Davis

Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California.

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American writer, urban theorist, political activist, and historian from Southern California (1946-2022)

Born 1946
Died 2022

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  • Cover of: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

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  • Cover of: No one is illegal: fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border

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  • Cover of: Ecology of fear: Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster

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  • Cover of: BUDA'S WAGON: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CAR BOMB.

    First published in 2007 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Late Victorian holocausts: El Niño famines and the making of the third world

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  • Cover of: Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City

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  • Cover of: Prisoners of the American dream: politics and economy in the history of the U.S. working class

    First published in 1986 — 5 editions
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    First published in 2005 — 4 editions
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    First published in 2007 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The grit beneath the glitter: tales from the real Las Vegas

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  • Cover of: The Year Left: An American Socialist Yearbook

    First published in 1985 — 3 editions
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    First published in 2004 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Fire in the hearth: the radical politics of place in America

    First published in 1990 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Reshaping the US left: popular struggles in the 1980s

    First published in 1988 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: 9 to 5 beats ten to life: how to (re)enter society

    First published in 1995 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1983 — 2 editions
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    First published in 2002 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1997 — 2 editions
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American writer, urban theorist, political activist, and historian from Southern California (1946-2022)

Born 1946
Died 2022

Subjects

History, Social conditions, Politics and government, Art, Art & Art Instruction, Cities and towns, City and town life, Inner cities, Los Angeles, Los angeles (calif.), history, Social classes, USA, Urban Sociology, American - General, American Art, Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, California, Case studies, Cities and towns, united states, Civilization, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General, Crime, Disasters, Economic conditions, Ethnicity

Places

United States, California, Los Angeles (Calif.), Los Angeles, Brazil, Canada, China, Cities, Denmark, Detroit, Detroit (Mich.), Greenland, India, Las Vegas (Nev.), Los Angeles (Calif., Motiv), Mexican-American Border Region, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Political culture, San Diego, San Diego (Calif.), Southern California, USA

People

Karl Marx (1818-1883), Mike Davis (1946-)

Time

20th century, 1980-, 1981-1989, 21st century, 1970-, 1975-, 1989-, 1990-, 19th century, 2001-

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March 1, 2024 Edited by merge authors
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October 22, 2017 Edited by dcapillae Add bio
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import