Ensayo político sobre el reino de la Nueva España

"Comprehensive listing of nearly 1,000 printed works from Mexico City includes bandos, constitutions, regulations, sermons, and reports of festivities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

There is nothing so dangerous for a town in America as the disinterested love of the United States. Their protection is a fire necklace. Justo Sierra The Fire Necklace is an immense, astonishing novel, where the vibrant prose melts down with the historical erudition. Valerio Evangelisti has written a book difficult to put down once the reading has started; a book in which the reader's imagination keeps running boldly while memorizing and assimilating the homeland's past. It's the story of the Mexican XIX century as never before has been written; its connective threads are the contradictory...

Mexico may be able to recover Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Will Venustiano Carranza accept the offer of the German government to recover that lost territory? Silently a violent storm is growing. The Mexican president analyze the German Kaizer Guillermo II, without knowing that this telegram Zimmermann Telegram- has been decrypted by Great Britain detonating the first world war.

En estas paginas se presenta una seleccion de los parrafos mas iluminados de la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana. Se trata de las descripciones mas apasionadas y asombrosas que se quedarian para siempre en la memoria del cronista. Aqui se perciben el azoro ante lo desconocido, la admiracion ante las grandezas del mundo mexica, la sentida importancia que el autor confiere a los hechos en los que participa y todo un vertigo de colores, sabores, edificios y multitudes que no parecen sino cosas de encantamiento.