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Mike Davis
AuthorBooks · Second hand1946-2022
Michael Ryan Davis was an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian based in Southern California. He was best known for his investigations of power and social class in works such as City of Quartz and Late Victorian Holocausts. His last two non-fiction books were Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism.
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About Mike Davis
Birth
1946
Death
2022
Michael Ryan Davis was an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian based in Southern California. He was best known for his investigations of power and social class in works such as City of Quartz and Late Victorian Holocausts. His last two non-fiction books were Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism.
Mike Davis was born in Fontana, California, a setting that deeply shaped his critical perspective on urban development.
He is globally recognized for his work City of Quartz, a foundational analysis of power and social class in Southern California.
Throughout his prolific career, he published over 50 works exploring history, politics, and 20th-century social conditions.
Beyond his writing, Davis served as a university professor, lecturer, and a tireless political activist.
His legacy endures as one of the most lucid voices in the study of urban geography and American sociology.
