Entre la caridad y el derecho

In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoléon's installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium--including forces from Crimea to Egypt--to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico's Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...

"Durante mucho tiempo el Estado tarasco ha sido presentado como un ente aislado en Mesoamérica. La presente obra investiga los contactos exteriores del Irechecua Tzintzuntzani y muestra que no sólo en el ámbito cultural, sino también en el político y económico, participó en el multicéntrico sistema mundo mesoamericano del Posclásico. Aparte del análisis de los contactos con grupos y regiones dentro de Mesoamérica, se incluye el estudio de las relaciones con Aridoamérica y se evalúa la posibilidad de contactos con Centroamérica y Suramérica. Se explora además la fragmentación...

Sharply critical analysis of Mexico's recent round of ambitious structural reforms, particularly of oil industry and finance reforms, which author says show direct line of descent from 18th-century Bourbon reforms, politics of Porfirio Diaz and neoliberal ideals of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, historical antecedents vilified by many on left in Mexico. Author was Mexico's youngest elected governor and is currently serving in Congress.