History Seminar: Mexico's Napoleon? The Military and Political Career of President Alvaro Obregón 1880-1928

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Alan Knight, Oxford

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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 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 th on the Mexican Revolution (1987).