Mike Davis

Mike Davis is the author of several books including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa'aloa, Hawaii.

Books by Mike Davis

  1. Book CoverBuda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb


    A gripping history of the car bomb tracing the global development of this weapon of terror and resistance.More

  2. Book CoverCanaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West


    A quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.More

  3. Book CoverCity of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

    New Edition

    This new edition of Mike Davis’s visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century.More

  4. Book CoverInvisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory

    New edition

    New and updated edition of the classic work of black feminism.More

  5. Book CoverLate Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World


    “Eloquent and passionate, this is a veritable Black Book of liberal capitalism.”—Tariq AliMore

  6. Book CoverMagical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

    Expanded Edition

    Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River?More

  7. Book CoverThe Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our Future


    D'Eramo presents an invigorating history that transforms the way we think about the city and the development of American capitalism.More

  8. Book CoverPlanet of Slums


    A celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion of slums.More

  9. Book CoverPolitics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power


    They seek power at any price, and pay with the devil’s own coin!More

  10. Book CoverThe Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in 19th Century America

    New Edition

    Saxton asks why white racism remained an ideological force in America long after the need to justify slavery and Western conquest had disappeared.More

  11. Book CoverThe Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

    New Edition

    An original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States.More

  12. Book CoverThe World According to Tomdispatch: America in the New Age of Empire


    From America’s most influential political blog, a grand survey of the world since 9/11.More