Ever since I read Alan Knight's magisterial two-volume The Mexican Revolution (1986)—in my view still the most influential study of that nation's twentieth-century upheaval almost four decades later—I have eagerly awaited each successive article or volume by him. Knight's magnum opus on twentieth-century Latin America's first great revolution put its popular roots, political consciousness, and diverse sociopolitical phenomena back at the center of the discussion, calling into question an emerging revisionist tide that viewed the revolution as nipped in the bud, co-opted by opportunist petty bourgeois caudillos and caciques. His other writings on the consolidation of the postrevolutionary Mexican state and Mexico's twentieth-century foreign relations, as well as recurring essays on social and revolutionary movements in comparative perspective, have distinguished his long career as a historian of Latin America. Knight's penchant for writing engrossing historical narrative, in tandem with exacting synthesis informed by social theory, to my mind has set...

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