
Michael Ryan Davis was an American public intellectual, urban theorist, writer, and Marxist 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, which connected political economy to social crises. 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.
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City of quartz
2006
ISBN 9781844675685
Old gods, new enigmas
2018
ISBN 9781788732161
Set the Night on Fire
2020
ISBN 9781784780234
Dead Cities
2024
ISBN 9798888902806
In Praise of Barbarians
2007
ISBN 9781931859424
Setting the Night on Fire
2009
ISBN 9780805075700
City of Quartz Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
2006
ISBN 9781306918442