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Maximilian and Carlota : Europe's last empire in Mexico
Title
Maximilian and Carlota : Europe's last empire in Mexico / M. M. McAllen.
ISBN
9781595341839 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1595341838 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781595341853 (ebk.)
Publication
San Antonio, Texas : Trinity University Press, [2014]
Physical Description
xii, 521 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Summary
In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoleon'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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 03, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-499) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Mexicans, you have desired my presence
The right of kings
Sooner or later, war will have to be declared
The Red Avenger
The siege of Puebla
Honor of the House of Habsburg
What would you think of me
The future will be splendid
A task worthy of the damned
Our daily bread
A premonitory symptom
Every drop of my blood is Mexican
Like a lost soul
The French repatriation
The empire is nothing without the emperor
Beware of the French
Someone is intent on poisoning me
Getting out of the toils of the French
Liberator I will be
War is war
The enemy is here
I have cared for you all
¡Viva Mexico! ¡Viva el Emperador!
Epilogue.
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