Mike Davis
Mike Davis is the author of several books including City of Quartz, The Monster at Our Door, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego.
Mike Davis is the author of several books including City of Quartz, The Monster at Our Door, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego. See less
Mike Davis's Featured Books
Mike Davis book reviews
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World
An amazing high level piece of scholarship
by Tadit A, Oct 31, 2017
This is a very competent coverage of economic history, imperialist plundering, meteorological trends, and a detailing of inhumanity for corporate profit, comparable in some sense to the ... Read More
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Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb
by Bastarx, May 24, 2007
This is a great book about the rise and rise of the car bomb as a weapon of unconventional warfare. I was surprised at just how many car bombs there had been in the last 15 years or so. Read More
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the Us City
latino fertilisation
In this book Davis examines the far reaching changes in the US brought about by a massive influx of Latin American migrants during the last two decades. Pushed by Central American civil wars and the ... Read More