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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...

Con las fotos inigualables de Nacho L pez, recobramos Para la memoria c mo era la vida de la ciudad de M xico en los a os cincuenta y principios de los sesenta. la urbe captada por la lente de L pez exhibe a sus hijos, ciudadanos capitalinos qu micamente puros que la viven de d a y de noche, gast ndola, sufri ndola y rehaci ndola Para que no los desconozca.

Karina Batthyány nos coloca ante una idea sencilla pero que implica una transformación cultural que avanza firmemente: la importancia del trabajo no remunerado dentro del hogar y el estatuto de las mujeres como trabajadoras por esas tareas, que arrastran un estigma histórico de desvalorización y naturalización. La pandemia del coronavirus puso en evidencia su valor fundamental para el funcionamiento de la sociedad y la economía. Para analizar la igualdad y el ejercicio de derechos puertas adentro de los hogares, Batthyány nos propone revisar el concepto de género, la división sexual...

"Catalog of the portraits in the National History Museum, which is the most important collection of colonial portraits in Mexico. A small b/w illustration of each work is accompanied by explanatory text and, in some cases, the biographical dates of the individuals portrayed. Provides date, material, size, and provenance. Also contains a biographical list of artists and illustrations of their signatures in the collection, as well as an index of colonial painters from the 16th-18th centuries and some from the 19th-20th centuries"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.