Background
Mike Davis was born in 1939, in California. He is the son of Midwestern Irish-Welsh parents who hitchhiked to the Golden State during the Great Depression.
Mike Davis
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202, USA
Reed College where Mike Davis studied.
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
The University of California where Mike Davis received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree.
1200 Getty Center Dr #1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA
The Getty Research Institute where Mike Davis studied from 1996 to 1997.
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202, USA
Reed College where Mike Davis studied.
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
The University of California where Mike Davis received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree.
1200 Getty Center Dr #1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA
The Getty Research Institute where Mike Davis studied from 1996 to 1997.
(This series of essays surveys the history of the American...)
This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the re-election of Ronal Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.
https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-American-Dream-Politics-Economy/dp/1859842488/?tag=2022091-20
1986
(The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the ci...)
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it while also exposing the brutal ongoing struggle between L.A.'s haves and have-nots.
https://www.amazon.com/City-Quartz-Excavating-Future-Angeles/dp/1844675688/?tag=2022091-20
1990
(In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unspa...)
In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of City of Quartz, revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A.'s fragile natural ecology with its disastrous environmental and social history, he compellingly shows a city deliberately put in harm's way by land developers, builders, and politicians, even as the incalculable toll of inevitable future catastrophe continues to accumulate.
https://www.amazon.com/Ecology-Fear-Angeles-Imagination-Disaster/dp/0375706070/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the fa...)
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history.
https://www.amazon.com/Late-Victorian-Holocausts-Famines-Making/dp/1784786624/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(Using environmental science as his methodology, the MacAr...)
Using environmental science as his methodology, the MacArthur fellow and author of City of Quartz peels the lid off the nation's urban battle zones, explosing the white flight, deindustrialization, segration, and discrimination, and failed federal policy that has destroyed the nation's urban areas.
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Cities-Other-Mike-Davis/dp/1565847652/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(While working with a famous scientist in Greenland, four ...)
While working with a famous scientist in Greenland, four teenage scientists stumble upon a mysterious find that transports them to the Valley of the Runes where they encounter marooned Vikings, Arctic hurricanes, and other dangerous adventures.
https://www.amazon.com/Land-Lost-Mammoths-Science-Adventure/dp/0974707805/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(On a trip to the island of Socotra with Dr. Hasan to exam...)
On a trip to the island of Socotra with Dr. Hasan to examine the local fauna, students Jack, Conor, and Julia befriend a witch, encounter Delta Force commandos, and stumble upon the delivery of a cargo that is powerful enough to destroy the world.
https://www.amazon.com/Pirates-Bats-Dragons-Adventure-Adventures/dp/0974707821/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(In this urgent and extraordinarily frightening book, Mike...)
In this urgent and extraordinarily frightening book, Mike Davis reconstructs the scientific and political history of a viral apocalypse in the making, exposing the central roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments, in creating the ecological conditions for the emergence of this new plague.
https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Our-Door-Global-Threat/dp/1595580115/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the...)
Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the “anthropocene,” which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism’s failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880–1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Gods-New-Enigmas-Theory/dp/1788732162/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Mike Davis was born in 1939, in California. He is the son of Midwestern Irish-Welsh parents who hitchhiked to the Golden State during the Great Depression.
Mike Davis attended Reed College in the mid-1960s. At the age of thirty, Davis returned to formal study, taking on coursework in labor history at the University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree.
He also studied at the Getty Research Institute from 1996 to 1997.
Mike Davis worked for a short time as a Hollywood tour guide. However, after graduating from the University of California he accepted an invitation to edit and write for the London-based Marxist journal New Left Review, and thus began his official writing career. He spent six years working at the journal’s London office. Davis also worked as a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California. He worked as a professor of urban theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and at Stony Brook University. Later he took up the post of professor of history at the University of California, Irvine's history department. Davis also contributes to the British monthly Socialist Review, the organ of the British Socialist Workers Party. He wrote articles for The Nation and the UK's New Statesman.
In 1986, Davis published his first book, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class, a sobering critique that investigates the disorganization and depoliticization of American capitalism from the 19th-century through the Reagan era. In 1990, Davis published City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, which presents a disquieting view of Los Angeles. In 1999, Davis published another book about Los Angeles, Ecology of Fear. His other books, such as Late Victorian Holocausts and Dead Cities, are mainly devoted to economic, social, environmental and political injustice. Mike Davis also wrote two fiction books for young adults: Land of The Lost Mammoths and Pirates, Bats and Dragons.
Mike Davis is known as an American writer, historian and political activist, who is famous for his books City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear. He wrote numerous books about environmental issues and political injustice.
Davis received the MacArthur Fellowship Award in 1998 and The World History Association Bentley Book Prize in 2002 for Late Victorian Holocausts.
(In this urgent and extraordinarily frightening book, Mike...)
2005(Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the fa...)
2001(Using environmental science as his methodology, the MacAr...)
2003(This series of essays surveys the history of the American...)
1986(While working with a famous scientist in Greenland, four ...)
2003(Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the...)
2018(In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unspa...)
1998(On a trip to the island of Socotra with Dr. Hasan to exam...)
2004(The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the ci...)
1990Mike Davis married Alessandra Moctezuma. The marriage produced a daughter and a son.
