Bücher von Alan Knight

This book is an in-depth exploration of ENVY/Developer, IBM's team programming environment for Smalltalk and Java. It covers VisualAge for Smalltalk, VisualWorks, and VisualAge Generator in detail. The concepts and management presented here also apply to VisualAge for Java. Code examples, tools, and add-ons, are available on the supporting Web site.

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.

This 2002 book, the second in a three-volume history of Mexico, focuses on the period 1521 to 1821, and offers a comprehensive narrative and analysis of colonial Mexico following the Spanish conquest. Concludes with an analysis of the accumulating tensions of the Bourbon era and of the bloody struggle for Mexican independence.

Spanish colonialism exacted a high price from its subjects, promoting economic dependency as the accompaniment of a more vital economy based on a mix of industry and agriculture. This volume examines how Spanish colonial policies contributed to patterns of underdevelopment in the Kingdom of Quito (modern Ecuador) from 1690 to 1830.

After looking briefly at the reasons for the oil fraternity's choice of Venezuela, the book examines the relationship between Gomez's government and the oil companies during this period. It deals with the government's initial encouragement, legislation, and unsuccessful attempts to increase production from the small number of companies operating before 1919.