México y Estados Unidos

A series of narratives based on the history of a hacienda in San Gertrudis, Chihuahua during the Mexican revolution, with focus on the incursion of rebel troops and the reaction of rural residents. The author (1944) is a native of San Gertrudis.

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...

Ignacio Comonfort fue un mexicano sobresaliente del siglo XIX. Destacado militar y político poblano, fue diputado, Ministro de Guerra, y Presidente de la República. Fue protagonista en varios momentos definitorios del país y se convirtió en un individuo ejemplar de la historia mexicana. Conoce la vida de uno de los arquitectos de la soberanía del Estado Mexicano.

Instructions given by order of Maximilian to Juan N. Almonte concerning his mission to France, signed by the Minister, Martín Castillo y Cos.