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
