The Essential Mike Davis: 40% off

Mike Davis was a meat cutter and truck driver, as well as an activist for Students for a Democratic Society before starting his academic career. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship Award and the Lannan Literary Award. His many books on history and the city, including the bestselling City of Quartz, have been critically acclaimed across the world.

In this new series we bring together his classic books in beautiful new editions, starting with Planet of Slums, Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb, and Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World.

All our books by Mike Davis are 40% off when you buy 2 or more. Activate your discount by clicking here, or on any of the book links below. The discount will not appear in your cart until you have added 2 or more books. See below for a full list of books by Mike Davis!

Ends Jan 22nd at 23.59 (UTC)



Planet of Slums

The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live



Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb

The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of the “poor man’s air force,” the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction.



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

A magisterial melding of global ecological and political history, disclosing the nineteenth-century roots of underdevelopment in what became the Third World.

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

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

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

Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class?

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

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

All our books by Mike Davis are 40% off when you buy 2 or more. Activate your discount by clicking on any of the books above, or here. The discount will not appear in your cart until you have added 2 or more books. 

Includes free shipping (worldwide) and free bundled books (where available) when you buy the print edition.

Ends Jan 22nd at 23.59 (UTC)