Mike Davis
American writer, urban theorist, political activist, and historian from Southern California (1946-2022) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 76
Michael Ryan Davis was an American Marxist historian, public intellectual, urban theorist, and writer 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, which connected political economy to social crises.
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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.
