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Good. The book is nice and 100% readable, but the book has visible wear which may include stains, scuffs, scratches, folded edges, sticker glue, highlighting, notes, and worn corners.
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Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers and labels. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Very Good. Signed by Author(s) Hardcover Cloth 521 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition First printing 2014 with corresponding number line. Nice red boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored with slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Inscribed on title page. 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? Çöincluding forces from Crimea to Egypt? Çöto fight and subdue the regime of Mexico's Benito Ju? ? ez 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 Ju? ? ez, 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. A childhood spent on a South Texas ranch, devouring the stories of the Mexican Revolution and other momentous events from the history of Mexico and the U.S. Southwest, set Mary Margaret McAllen on the road to scholarly investigation of this fascinating past. Her first two books, which garnered critical acclaim and award recognition, dealt in various ways with the intersection of U.S. /Texas and Mexico. In her latest, most ambitious project to date, Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico, McAllen turns the focus of her research on the clash between Old World and New. 521 pp.