Alan Knight former Professor of Latin American History at Oxford University, is an Emeritus Fellow of the Latin American Centre. His chief interest is twentieth-century Latin American history, with a focus on Mexico, agrarian society, state-building and revolutions. He has published extensively on the history od the region, including The Mexican Revolution (2 vols, 1986) US-Mexican Relations, 1910-40 (1987); two volumes of a three volume general history of Mexico, Mexico: From the Beginning to the Conquest, and Mexico: The Colonial Era (2002), and Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints. Latin America since Independence (2022). His work has been recognized with several awards, including the Order of the Aztec Eagle from the Mexican government, the Albert Beveridge Prize (1986) and the Bolton Prize from the Conference on Latin American History for his two-volume work on the Mexican Revolution (1987).