...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 Book Reviews...

...Esther Acevedo Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico . By Mcallen M. M. . San Antonio, TX : Trinity University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Plates. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 521 pp. Cloth , $29.95 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press...

...Joanne R. Sánchez Recollections of Mexico: The Last Ten Months of Maximilian's Empire. By samuel basch. Edited and translated by fred d. ullman. Latin American Silhouettes: Studies in History and Culture. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2001. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. xxiv, 278...

...Maximilian C. Forte The Imagined Island: History, Identity, and Utopia in Hispaniola . By pedro l. san miguel. Translated by jane ramírez. Latin America in Translation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 194 pp. Cloth, $59.95...

... The Hispanic American Historical Review editorial staff regret the misunderstanding that appeared in the review of M. M. McAllen's Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico (Trinity University Press, 2014) in the February 2015 issue of the journal regarding the author's use of...

... republican raids. Recent borderlands scholarship highlights these extensive, transnational raiding networks that intruded into Confederate plans. Additionally, strong opposition to Maximilian in the Mexican provinces presented further obstacles to the migrants, since they were closely linked to the occupying...

... equivalent to present-day ambulance chasers. She examines petitions delivered to Maximilian’s Junta Protectora de las Clases Menesterosas to demonstrate not only petitioners’ creativity in composition but also Maximilian’s desire to dispense justice. Monarchical...

... (the proun rooms are the work of El Lissitzky, not Alexander Rodchenko [p. 227], and Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican defeat of a French force at Puebla in 1862, not the execution of Emperor Maximilian, which took place on June 19, 1867 [p. 352], for instance) do not mar the exceptional quality...

... . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Arndt Brendecke is a professor of early modern history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. He received his training in the history of the Holy Roman Empire but then shifted focus with his habilitation (second doctorate) to the Spanish...

... the temporary demise of the Monroe Doctrine, Napoléon III intervened in Mexico (1862–67) to install Maximilian of Austria as emperor. The French emperor expected the Confederacy to form a buffer state, thus aiding his ambitions in Mexico. As a result of France's “Grand Design” to contain US influence...

... second empire. This represented an attempt by Maximilian's regime to demonstrate the value of a paternalistic monarchy. Although interesting, the chapter has nothing to do with caciques and thus is superfluous to the basic argument of what is a fairly short book. There are also some minor historical...

... with the conservatives' constant demand for church funds and Emperor Maximilian's refusal to repeal the reform legislation of 1855–1860, Munguía came round to accepting Benito Juárez's 1859 decree to separate church and state, going as far as to write to the pope to acknowledge as much. This...

... patológico quizás, tanto el uno como el otro, el que hace nuestras ideas. —Miguel de Unamuno In the narrative of Mexican national memory, the struggle against the French intervention and Maximilian’s empire seems to have retained, even in the face of increasing revisionism, all the qualities...