La herencia medieval de México

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...

"A reporter's detailed account, with considerable political insight, of the conflicts between the PRI and the opposition in the state of Michoacán, an intense microcosm of Mexico's political frustrations and electoral fraud occurring from 1886-1993"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"Diré adiós a los señores, acorde con el subtítulo, "Vida cotidiana en la época de Maximiliano y Carlota", nos presenta desde una visión libre de prejuicios el acontecer de la sociedad mexica en diferentes facetas en tiempos del efímero imperio del archiduque austriaco. El resultado es un abigarrado mosaico en que coexisten en abrupto contraste, los más dispares estilos de vida. Así conocemos desde los más exquisitos refinamientos cortesanos, que las familias linajudas se esforzaron para asimilar de sus modelos europeos recién importados, hasta las manifestaciones más elementales...

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...