Bøger af Alan Knight

In the summer of 1997, thousands of foreign journalists converged on Hong Kong to record one of the last episodes in Western colonialism. How foreign journalists chose to report the handover, and what they decided to ignore about it, reveals much about foreign news agendas and how they are framed by ideological and cultural assumptions. This book uses the handover of Hong Kong to illustrate the process of media reporting as well as the product. The authors consider how a "reality" is constructed through press releases and visual spectacles. Also featured are interviews with thirteen Hong Kong-based journalists from seven countries who took part in this media jamboree and who discuss the restrictions they worked under, including the pressure for colorful stories and the inability to pose questions to the key players.

Begins with the army counter-revolution of 1913, which ended Francisco Madero's liberal experiment and installed Victoriano Huerta's military rule. This book offers an interpretation of the schism of 1914-15, which divided the revolution in its moment of victory, and which led to the final bout of civil war between forces of Villa and Carranza.

Exploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first.

Shows how urban liberals joined in uneasy alliance with agrarian interests to install Francisco Madero as president and how his attempts to bring constitutional democracy to Mexico were doomed by counter-revolutionary forces. This title illuminates on all levels, local and national, the complex history of an era.

This, the first in a three-volume history, charts the development of Mesoamerica from roughly 25,000 BC down to the Spanish Conquest. Analysing the principal periods and ethnic groups, Alan Knight seeks to explain the basic processes of pre-conquest history. The book concludes with the birth of colonial New Spain.