A new edition of the book which melds global environmental history and global political history, to examine a series of El-Nino-induced droughts and the famines they spawned in the 19th century. von Davis, Mike

A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the Sixties Histories of the US Sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. LA was a...

In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. von Davis, Mike

A new edition of the classic, bestselling worldwide survey of slums from the urbanist and historian Mike Davis. 'The Raymond Chandler of urban geography...' "Independent" von Davis, Mike

Mike Davis spent years working factory jobs and sitting behind the wheel of an eighteen-wheeler before his profile as one of the world's leading urbanists emerged with the publication of his sober, if dystopian, survey of Los Angeles...

The World Health Organization warns avian influenza H5N1--which kills two out of every three people it infects--is on the verge of mutating into a super-contagious pandemic that could visit several billion homes within two years. Davis...

"The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism" von Mike Davis ist eine kritische Analyse der globalen Gesundheitskrisen im Kontext des Kapitalismus. Davis untersucht die Ursprünge und die Verbreitung von...