Latin American History Seminar: Violence, Vigilantism and Pancho Villa: the US-Mexican Border During the Mexican Revolution

Thursday 3 November, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
2016 mt poster week

Convener: Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker: Alan Knight, University of Oxford

Alan Knight, professor emeritus of the History of Latin America, Oxford University; formerly of the Universities of Texas and Essex; author of The Mexican Revolution (1986, new Spanish  edition 2010); two volumes of a general history of Mexico (2002); La revolution cósmica (2013) and Repensar la Revolución mexicana (2 vols., 2013); co-editor of symposia dealing with the Mexican oil industry, caciquismo, superstition, and the great depression of the 1930s in Latin America.