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Mike Davis

Marxist urban historian, author of City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts and Planet of Slums, and long an editor of New Left Review.

Lived
1946–2022
Also known as
M. Davis
Authority records
Wikidata · VIAF · Library of Congress · GND · ISNI · BnF
Sources
Marxists Internet Archive; Wikipedia — Mike Davis (scholar); Wikidata — Q1933136

Bibliography

First editions. A tick marks a work matched to a library catalogue record.

YearTitleFirst published byRecords
1986Prisoners of the American Dream✓Verso, LondonOpen Library · Library of Congress record
1990City of Quartz✓ — Excavating the Future in Los AngelesVerso, LondonOpen Library · WorldCat record
1998Ecology of Fear✓ — Los Angeles and the Imagination of DisasterMetropolitan Books, New YorkOpen Library · WorldCat record
2000Magical Urbanism✓Verso, LondonOpen Library · WorldCat record
2001Late Victorian Holocausts✓Verso, LondonOpen Library · WorldCat record
2002Dead Cities✓New PressOpen Library
2002The Grit Beneath the Glitter✓University of California PressOpen Library · WorldCat record
2003Under the Perfect Sun✓New Press, New YorkOpen Library · WorldCat record
2005The Monster at Our Door✓ — The Global Threat of Avian FluNew Press, New YorkOpen Library · WorldCat record
2006No One Is Illegal✓Haymarket BooksOpen Library · WorldCat record
2006Planet of SlumsFeltrinelli, MilanoOpen Library
2007Buda's wagon✓VERSO, LONDONOpen Library
2007Evil Paradises✓New PressOpen Library · WorldCat record
2007In Praise of Barbarians✓Haymarket BooksOpen Library · WorldCat record
2018Old Gods, New Enigmas[no publisher recorded]Open Library
2020Set the Night on FireAudible Studios on Brilliance AudioOpen Library

Editions in the catalogue

6019801990200020102020Died 20221985: 2 titles1986: 2 titles1987: 4 titles1988: 1 title1990: 3 titles1991: 3 titles1999: 1 title2000: 1 title2001: 2 titles2002: 1 title2003: 1 title2005: 1 title2006: 2 titles2007: 6 titles2008: 4 titles2009: 3 titles2010: 2 titles2012: 1 title2016: 1 title2017: 5 titles2018: 3 titles2019: 1 title2020: 2 titles2021: 1 title2022: 2 titles2023: 1 title2024: 2 titles2025: 1 title
Editions of Mike Davis by year: 59 dated titles, 1985–2025, most in 2007 (6); 1 undated. Lines mark died 2022.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1980s9
1990s7
2000s21
2010s13
2020s9
YearTitleAuthor(s)PublisherLanguage
1985An American Socialist Yearbook
The Year Left
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
December 1985The Year Left✓ — An American Socialist Yearbook
The Haymarket Series
M. Davis, F. Pfeil & Michael SprinklerVerso BooksEnglish
1986Phoenix im Sturzflug✓ — Zur politischen Ökonomie der Vereinigten Staaten in den achtziger Jahren
Rotbuch -- 315
Mike DavisRotbuch VerlagGerman
1986Prisoners of the American Dream✓Free — Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
The Haymarket Series
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
1987Politics of Combined and Uneven DevelopmentMichael LöwyVerso BooksEnglish
1987The Year Left 2 (Toward a Rainbow Socialism)Mike DavisVerso BooksNot recorded
1987The Year Left on American Socialist Yearbook✓Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
1987Toward a Rainbow Socialism✓ — Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender
The Year Left: An American Socialist Yearbook; 2
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
1988Reshaping the US Left✓ — Popular Struggles in the 1980s
The Year Left
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
1990City of Quartz✓Free — Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
The Haymarket Series
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
1990Fire in the Hearth✓ — The Radical Politics of Place in America
The Year Left
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
1990Prisoners of the American Dream✓Free — Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
The Haymarket Series
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
1991City of Quartz✓Free — Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
The Haymarket Series
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
March 1991Fire in the Hearth — The Radical Politics of Place in America (the Year Left, Vol. 4)Mike DavisVerso BooksNot recorded
1991Prisoners of the American Dream✓Free — Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
The Haymarket Series
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
1999Prisoners of the American Dream✓Free — Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
The Haymarket Series
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2000Magical Urbanism✓ — Latinos Reinvent the US City
The Haymarket Series
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2001Late Victorian Holocausts✓Free — El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third WorldMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2001Magical Urbanism✓ — Latinos Reinvent the US City
A Haymarket Book
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2002Late Victorian Holocausts✓Free — El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third WorldMike Davis & American Council of Learned SocietiesVerso BooksEnglish
October 2003The Pig and the Skyscraper✓ — Chicago; a History of Our FutureMarco D'Eramo & Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2005No One Is Illegal✓ — Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico BorderMike Davis, Justin Akers Chacón & Julián CardonaHaymarket BooksEnglish
2006City of Quartz✓Free — Excavating the Future in Los AngelesMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
March 1, 2006Planet of Slums✓Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2007Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb✓FreeMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2007In Praise of Barbarians✓ — Essays Against EmpireMike DavisHaymarket BooksEnglish
2007In Praise of the Barbarians✓ — Essays Against EmpireMike DavisHaymarket BooksEnglish
2007Late Victorian Holocausts✓Free — El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third WorldMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2007Magical Urbanism✓ — Latinos Reinvent the US City; Updated with New Information from the 2000 Census
The Haymarket Series
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2007Planet of Slums✓Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2008Battle for Lower Ninth — ACORN and the Rebuilding of New OrleansWade Rathke & Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2008Buda's Wagon✓Free — A Brief History of the Car BombMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2008Magical Urbanism — Latinos Reinvent the US CityMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2008Nadie es ilegal✓ — Combatiendo el racismo y la violencia de Estado en la frontera Estados Unidos-MéxicoJustin Akers Chacón & Mike DavisHaymarket BooksSpanish
2009Nadie es ilegal✓ — Combatiendo el racismo y la violencia de Estado en la frontera Estados Unidos-MéxicoJustin Akers Chacón & Mike DavisHaymarket BooksSpanish
2009Nadie Es Ilegal Combatiendo El Racismo Y La Violencia De Estado En La Frontera Estatos Unidos MxicoJustin Akers Chacon & Mike DavisHaymarket BooksNot recorded
2009Old Man — John Brown at Harper's FerryTruman Nelson & Mike DavisHaymarket BooksEnglish
2010In Praise of BarbariansMike DavisHaymarket BooksEnglish
2010Portable John ReedJohn Reed & Mike DavisHaymarket BooksEnglish
2012Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible✓Mike DavisHaymarket BooksEnglish
2016Nadie Es IlegalMike Davis & Justin Akers ChaconHaymarket BooksSpanish
2017A James Connolly Reader✓James Connolly, Shaun Harkin & Mike DavisHaymarket BooksEnglish
2017Buda's Wagon✓Free — A Brief History of the Car BombMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2017Late Victorian Holocausts✓Free — El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third WorldMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2017No One Is Illegal — Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U. S. -Mexico BorderMike Davis & Justin Akers ChaconHaymarket BooksEnglish
2017Planet of Slums✓Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2018City of Quartz✓Free — Excavating the Future in Los AngelesMike Davis & Robert MorrowVerso BooksEnglish
2018Old Gods, New Enigmas✓ — Marx's Lost TheoryMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2018Prisoners of the American Dream✓Free — Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working ClassMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2019Last White ElectionMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2020Old Gods, New Enigmas — Marx's Lost TheoryMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2020Set the Night on Fire✓ — L.A. in the SixtiesMike Davis & Jon WienerVerso BooksEnglish
2021Set the Night on Fire✓ — L.A. in the SixtiesMike Davis & Jon WienerVerso BooksEnglish
2022Ecology of Fear✓Free — Los Angeles and the Imagination of DisasterMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2022Monster Enters — COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of CapitalismMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2023Nadie Es Ilegal — Combatiendo el Racismo y la Violencia de Estado en la FronteraJustin Akers Chacon, Mike Davis, Jan Mervart & Julián CardonaHaymarket BooksSpanish
2024Dead Cities✓ — And Other TalesMike Davis & Rebecca SolnitHaymarket BooksEnglish
2024Magical Urbanism✓ — Latinos Reinvent the US City
The Essential Mike Davis
Mike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
2025Old Gods, New Enigmas — Marx's Lost TheoryMike DavisVerso BooksEnglish
n.d.The Haymarket SeriesMike Davis & Michael SprinkerVerso BooksEnglish