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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 product of innuendo and rumor, as well as scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

En el primer tercio del siglo XX la sociedad española asistió a un intenso proceso de cambio económico, social y cultural que culminó, en el plano político, con la proclamación de la Segunda República, el 14 de abril de 1931. Un proceso acelerado a raíz de la neutralidad de España en la Primera Guerra Mundial y de los efectos de la segunda industrialización. En esta obra se tratan algunas de las transformaciones que marcaron este proceso de cambio, desde la reducción del analfabetismo a la caída de la mortalidad y la elevación de la estatura media de los jóvenes reclutas,...

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