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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...

Los versos del poema «Esperando a los bárbaros» de Cavafis inspiran a Javier Arce en su estudio sobre el siglo V d.C., uno de los más enigmáticos y peor conocidos de la historia de la Península Ibérica. Fue entonces cuando llegaron y se asentaron en la Hispania romana los llamados «pueblos bárbaros»: suevos, vándalos y alanos. Descrito tradicionalmente como un momento de «invasión», caos y desintegración de las estructuras políticas, sociales, administrativas y económicas romanas, este libro arroja otra mirada sobre dicho periodo. Mediante un meticuloso análisis de la...

Obra lujosamente editada en gran formato, con numerosas ilustraciones a color; parte esencial del contenido. Da una visión general de la realidad histórica americana en los siglos XVI y XVII desde una óptica renovada e integradora que abarca todos los campos temáticos: sociedad, población, economía, instituciones, iglesia, arte, urbanismo, etc.