Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico

by Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson

Book Overview

In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napol on'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 Ju...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595341838
• ISBN13: 9781595341839
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Trinity University Press
• Length: 521 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"