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Ecology of fear : Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster by Mike Davis; ProQuest (Firm) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. 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. Counterpointing L.A.'s central role in America's fantasy life--the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909--with its wanton denial of its own real history, Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, Ecology of Fear meticulously captures the nation's violent malaise and desperate social unease at the millennial end of "the American century." With savagely
Who reads Ecology of fear : Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mike Davis; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781786636263
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.99 / 5 (874 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14