
Mike Davis
Author · 19 books
Mike Davis was a social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He was best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. He was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lived in San Diego.
Books

Set the Night on Fire
L.A. in the Sixties
2020

In Praise of Barbarians
Essays Against Empire
2007

Under The Perfect Sun
The San Diego Tourists Never See
2003

Late Victorian Holocausts
El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
2000

Land of the Lost Mammoths
A Science Adventure
2004

Be Realistic
Demand the Impossible
2012

Magical Urbanism
Latinos Reinvent the US City, New and Fully Updated Edition
2000

Buda's Wagon
A Brief History of the Car Bomb
2007

The Monster Enters
COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism
2005

Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
1998

Pirates, Bats, And Dragons
A Science Adventure
2004

Evil Paradises
Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism
2007

Çivisi Çıkan Dünya
Covid-19 Salgını Üzerine Muhasebeler
2020

Planet of Slums
2006

The Monster at Our Door
The Global Threat of Avian Flu
2000

City of Quartz
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
1990

Prisoners of the American Dream
Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
1986

Dead Cities
And Other Tales
2002

Old Gods, New Enigmas
Marx's Lost Theory
2018