Alan Knight

Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints

Latin America Since Independence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In seven substantial essays, previously unpublished, Alan Knight offers a distinct perspective on several overarching themes in Latin American history, spanning approximately two centuries, from 1800 to 2000.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jewish Publication Society
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781496229786
• ISBN-10: 1496229789
• Artikelnr.: 62160121

Autorenporträt

Alan Knight is emeritus professor of the history of Latin America at the University of Oxford. He is a renowned scholar of Mexican history, and his books have won awards such as the American Historical Association’s Beveridge Prize and the Bolton Prize for his two-volume study The Mexican Revolution, Volume 1: Porfirians, Liberals, and Peasants and The Mexican Revolution, Volume 2: Counter-revolution and Reconstruction, both available from the University of Nebraska Press.    

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Back to Banditry
2. Toward an Explanation of Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
3. Religion and Conflict in Latin America, 1820–1930
4. The Little Divergence: Peru and Mexico Compared, 1780–1940
5. Informal Empire and Internal Colonialism in Latin America, 1820–1930
6. Hovering Dwarf: Britain and Latin American Revolutions in the Twentieth
Century
7. Workers and Peasants, Liberals and Jacobins: The Mexican Revolution in
Comparative Global Perspective
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index