Mike Davis (scholar) - Wikipedia
WEBMichael Ryan Davis (March 10, 1946 – October 25, 2022) 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.
Mike Davis | Biography, Books, Marxism, & Facts | Britannica
WEBMike Davis was an American historian, urban theorist, and political activist whose works reflected his commitment to Marxist ideology. He lived most of his life in southern California, and much of his work sought to explain the …
Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76
WEBOct 26, 2022 · Mike Davis, an urban theorist and historian who in stark, sometimes prescient books wrote of catastrophes faced by and awaiting humankind, and especially Los Angeles, died on Tuesday at his...
The unfulfilled American dream stalks Mike Davis’s dystopian Los ...
WEBNov 16, 2022 · Mike Davis’s radical urban history of LA was a trailblazing book that remains startlingly relevant to those of us who live in other supersizing cities in the early 21st century.
Mike Davis obituary: An appreciation of his books. - Slate Magazine
WEBOct 26, 2022 · Davis, the historian and urban theorist who died on Tuesday, was probably my favorite writer about cities that I have ever read. He didn’t only write about L.A., not by a long shot, but L.A....
Mike Davis, acclaimed Marxist activist, journalist, and historian, …
WEBNov 2, 2022 · Mike Davis, the acclaimed Marxist activist, journalist, and historian, died at his home in San Diego on Oct. 25, after a years-long fight against esophageal cancer, with his wife Alessandra...
Mike Davis, author of 'City of Quartz,' dies at 76 : NPR
WEBOct 26, 2022 · Mike Davis, a kind of tectonic-plate thinker whose books transformed how people, in Los Angeles in particular, understood their world, died on October 25 at his home in San Diego at the age of...
Mike Davis: 1946–2022 - The Nation
WEBOct 25, 2022 · Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, died October 25 after a long struggle with esophageal cancer; he was 76. He’s best known for his 1990 book about Los Angeles,...
Mike Davis, author of 'City of Quartz,' dies - Los Angeles Times
WEBOct 26, 2022 · Mike Davis, seen in 2004, was the author of “City of Quartz” and more than a dozen other books on politics, history and the environment.
Mike Davis, Activist and Author of “Planet of Slums” and “City of ...
WEBOct 26, 2022 · Writer, historian and activist Mike Davis has died at the age of 76. He authored a number of books, including “Planet of Slums,” “Ecology of Fear” and “City of Quartz,” a searing look at his...
Skip to content