CITY OF QUARTZ: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.

Davis, Mike (1946-2022)

Edité par Vintage Books, 1992

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Trade paperback. A provocative - even a brilliant - book by one of the most thoughtful writers on Los Angeles and California, one who is missed today: "Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not encouraging: a city torn by racial enmity, economic disparity, and social anomie. Looking backward, Davis suggests that Los Angeles has always been contested ground. In the 1840s, he writes, a combination of drought and industrial stock raising led to the destruction of small-scale Spanish farming in the region. In the 1910s, Los Angeles was the scene of a bitter conflict between management and industrial workers, so bitter that the publisher of the Los Angeles Times retreated to a heavily fortified home he called 'The Bivouac.' And in 1992, much of the city fell before flames and riot in a scenario Davis describes as thus: 'Gangs are multiplying at a terrifying rate, cops are becoming more arrogant and trigger-happy, and a whole generation is being shunted toward some impossible Armageddon.' Davis's voice-in-a-whirlwind approach to the past, present, and future of Los Angeles is alarming and arresting, and his book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary affairs."(Gregory MacNamee) Near fine.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: CITY OF QUARTZ: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.
• Éditeur: Vintage Books
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: VERY GOOD
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • California