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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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The Overland Monthly
Author: Maximilian
Author: Edgar Lee MastersPublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Maximilian and Carlota
Author: M. M. McAllenPublisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595341854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
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 Confederacy would prevail and take over Mexico. With both sides distracted in the U.S., this was their opportunity to seize territory in North America. In 1867, with aid from the United States, this movement came to a disastrous end both for the royals and for France while ushering in a new era for Mexico. In a bid to oust Juárez, Mexican conservatives appealed to European leaders to select a monarch to run their country. Maximilian and Carlota’s reign, from 1864 to 1867, was marked from the start by extravagance and ambition and ended with the execution of Maximilian by firing squad, with Carlota on the brink of madness. This epoch moment in the arc of French colonial rule, which spans North American and European history at a critical juncture on both continents, shows how Napoleon III’s failure to save Maximilian disgusted Europeans and sealed his own fate. Maximilian and Carlota offers a vivid portrait of the unusual marriage of Maximilian and Carlota and of international high society and politics at this critical nineteenth-century juncture. This largely unknown era in the history of the Americas comes to life through this colorful telling of the couple’s tragic reign.
Overland Monthly
Author: Manet and the Execution of Maximilian
Author: John ElderfieldPublisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870704239
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Manet and the Execution of Emperor Maximillian ISBN 0-87070-423-0 / 978-0-87070-423-9 Paperback, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 120 pgs / 35 color and 45 b&w. / U.S. $29.95 CDN $36.00 November / Nonfiction and Criticism
Dearborn Independent
Author: A Companion to Under the Volcano
Author: Lawrence J. ClipperPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774845031
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
An item-by-item discussion of the innumerable, often obscure details of Malcolm Lowry's novel, this book comprises 1,600 notes covering some 7,000 specific points. The notes are keyed to page numbers in the Penguin paperback and the two standard hardback editions. The appendices include a glossary, bibliography, maps of the region, and an index of motifs. In their comprehensive but unpedantic commentary on the novel's complexities, the authors' emphasis is on the narrative level. All points of obscurity are followed by an interpretation of fact. Thus references are noted to films, books, places, foreign languages, and national and tribal histories. Special attention is given to the literary, mystical, and Mexican background.
My Memories
Author: Ovide MusinPublisher:
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Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Rendezvous
Author: Scott R. LarsonPublisher: Scott R. Larson
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Two women meet for the first time over coffee in a San Francisco hotel. Each has come to satisfy her curiosity. One wants to learn how this mysterious woman on a holiday from Mexico knew her husband. The other wants to know what became of the boy she met on a beach as a teenager. In the course of their conversation, long-kept secrets will be revealed. This short story features characters from Scott R. Larson’s three Dallas Green novels: Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead, Lautaro’s Spear, and Searching for Cunégonde. Set two years after the end of the novels, “Rendezvous” will inform readers of certain things about which Dallas, narrator of the novels, was ignorant. Indeed, readers’ understanding of particular events will be irrevocably altered.
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