Entre la caridad y el derecho

La obra muestra los dos rasgos que han marcado las complejas relaciones mexicano-norteamericanas: cooperación y desacuerdo, factores especialmente marcados durante el sexenio 1982-1988. Deuda externa, comercio, migración, narcotráfico, medio ambiente, política exterior, fueron, entre otros, algunos temas que ambos países abordaron bilateralmente. La írevolución conservadoraî de Ronald Reagan y la dramática crisis económica heredada por el gobierno de Miguel de la Madrid son sólo un par de aspectos de ese difícil momento histórico. Diplomático de carrera, Astié-Burgos presenció ...

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...

Broadside from new governor José Antonio Mozo discussing reconquering the Department of Texas, with the cooperation and unification of the inhabitants of the Mexican Republic.

The Medieval Heritage of Mexico is the result of more than thirty years' intensive research. This work examines, more thoroughly than any other, the medieval legacy that influences life in Spanish-speaking North America to the present day. Focusing on the period from 1517--the expedition of Hernandez de Cordoba--to the middle of the seventeenth century, Weckmann describes how explorers, administrators, judges, and clergy introduced to the New World a culture that was essentially medieval. This culture was, in some respects, a flowering--a rebirth, even--of the ideals and institutions of...