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Also Known As Michael Ryan Davis
Born March 10, 1946 • Fontana • California
Died October 25, 2022 (aged 76) • San Diego • California
Notable Works “City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles” • “Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster” • “Late Victorian Holocausts” • “Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class” • “The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism” • “The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu”
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