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...N. Andrew N. Cleven Phantom Crown: the Story of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico . By Harding Bertita . ( The Bobbs-Merrill Company , Indianapolis and New York , 1934 . Pp. 368 . $3.50 .) Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico. Memoirs of his Private Secretary . By Blasio José...

... daily life at the court with fluency and interest, detailing Maximilian's schedule, court protocol, the distribution of medals, Carlota's company and her trips, the court's plants, food, and wines, and all the other minute details that are part of court life. Her use of historical sources contributes...

...Kathryn Abbey Hanna Mexican Empire: The History of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico . By Hyde H. Montgomery . ( London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd. [Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, Ltd.] , 1946 . Pp. ix , 349 . Illustrations. Paper . $5.00 .) Copyright 1947 by Duke University...

...Andrew E. Masich Maximilian, Mexico, and the Invention of Empire . By Ibsen Kristine . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . viii , 210 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Most...

...Preston E. James Maximilian Prinz zu Wied. Unveröffentlichte Bilder und Handschriften zur Völkerkunde Brasiliens . Edited by Röder Josef and Trimborn Hermann , in collaboration with Huppertz Josefine , Oberem Udo , and Prinz zu Wied Karl Viktor . Bonn , 1954 . Ferd...

... of the Confederacy. Indeed, the Confederate agent John Slidell twice in 1862 offered Napoleon III support for his Mexican venture in return for recognition or intervention in the Civil War, but both times was refused. Southern agents were also unsuccessful with Maximilian who rebuffed their attempts to gain...

...Timothy E. Anna It is a clear-eyed treatment, free of the sort of romantic nostalgia this topic often generates. Ridley does not want the reader to like Maximilian, and although a glimmer of warmth is mustered for Carlotta, it is rapidly dissipated. Despite the title, Benito Juárez plays very...

...Paul J. Vanderwood Manet, The Execution of Maximilian: Painting, Politics, and Censorship . By Wilson-Bareau Juliet . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1992 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 128 pp. Cloth . $35.00 . Copyright 1993...

...Kathryn Abbey Hanna An American in Maximilian’s Mexico, 1865-1866 . Edited by Ruiz Ramón Eduardo . Introduction by Holliday J. S. . San Marino, Calif. , 1959 . The Huntington Library . Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxxii , 132 . Cloth. $4.25 Copyright 1960 by Duke...

...Joanne R. Sánchez Recollections of Mexico: The Last Ten Months of Maximilian’s Empire . By Basch Samuel . Edited and translated by Ullman Fred D. . Latin American Silhouettes: Studies in History and Culture . Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 2001 . Photographs...

...Frank G. Weber * The author is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University. Copyright 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 U ntil 1864 P russian interest in Mexico was occasional and indifferently cordial. But in that year Ferdinand Maximilian von Habsburg took up...

...Maximilian C. Forte The Imagined Island: History, Identity, and Utopia in Hispaniola . By Miguel Pedro L. San . Translated by Ramírez Jane . Latin America in Translation . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2005 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x...

... University Press 2023 This study commences with the three leaders of Maximilian's empire in Mexico waiting for their execution by triumphant republican forces. It then takes the reader swiftly back in time to the war with the United States, which set off the Mexican crisis of the mid-nineteenth century...

..., 1864, at the Chateau of Miramar near Trieste, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian von Habsburg accepted the imperial crown offered him by a Mexican delegation. As Emperor Maximilian I, he became the embodiment of that newly created sovereign entity, the Mexican Empire. 1 Thenceforth his imperative task...

... substance is the study of Maximilian’s diplomatic relations with his brother, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria. Maximilian’s inept profession of friendship to the King of Italy, Austria’s enemy in the Seven Weeks War, exacerbated the unresolved question of his future position in Europe should he be obliged...

... by Duke University Press 2025 Hapsburgs on the Rio Grande brings new understanding to the European power politics that generated the French incursion into Mexico of 1862–67, revealing the personalities and politics that made the attempt to import armies and impose an empire led by Maximilian...

... evolve into one of the world's foremost museums. Achim demonstrates that Maximilian's interest in the museum helped to professionalize the institution by providing staff and adequate housing for the museum's artifacts; however, the issue of nationalism is lurking just outside her discussion. Although...