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Texts
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New! Prologue
by C.M. Mayo
to the book
by Luis Reed Torres, El Libertador sin Patria
In
which I reconsider Agustín de Iturbide and the question
of what it means to be Mexican, with quite a bit of detail about
the Iturbide family and Maximilian. Read the prologue in English or in Spanish.
My Recollections of Maximilian
By "Marie de
la Fère." A rare English language handwritten manuscript,
circa 1910, from the Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley. Printed on this website by permission of the Bancroft
Library.
Sketches
of the of the Last Year of the Mexican .JPG) Empire
This is not the
complete text of the memoir by Henry R. Magruder, but all of
the ten of the woodcuts by the author, accompanied by a selection
of excerpts. (His "Ranchero" is pictured left.)
Adiós
Mamá Carlota
About the Mexican
Protest Song of 1866: notes and two newspaper articles circa
1927
Reglamento
y ceremonial de la Corte, Mexico, 1866.
Maximilian and Carlota's book of court etiquette, 1866 edition.
(Some chapters from the first edition of 1865, as noted.)
La
Muerte del Emperador por Dr Szender Ede
Spanish translation
of a newspaper article published in Hungary in 1876, by Dr Szender
Ede, who participated in the autopsy.
The
Treaty of Miramar
The
complete text, including the additional secret articles, of the
treaty signed by the Emperor Louis Napoleon and Emperor Maximilian
in Miramar Castle, 1864.
Señora
doña Cordelia Jordan de Degollado: Una dama de la corte
de Carlota
Excelsior newspaper article, July 20, 1923. An
interview with the widow of Mariano Degollado, shortly before
the ex-Empress Carlota's death.
>>Click
here to view my English translation of this article.
Misc.
Articles and Papers Available On-line
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"Tulpa
Max or, Notes on the Afterlife of a Resurrection"
Catamaran Literary Reader, summer 2017
"Tulpa
Max. La vida después de una resurrección"
Letras Libres, junio de 2017
Una forma de decirlo es que los novelistas históricos
nos dedicamos al oficio de la resurrección.
¿Pero quién, o
qué es lo que precisamente traemos a la vida? Estos personajes
surgidos de nuestra imaginación, con todo y que estén
basados en seres que fueron alguna vez carnes, sangre y hueso,
¿son capaces de escapar de la página y, como los
tulpas de la tradición esotérica tibetana, adquirir
su propia voluntad y acechar a sus creadores? En el caso de Maximiliano
de Habsburgo... LEER
MÁS
Comentarios de C.M. Mayo en la presentación
del libro Los viajes de Maximiliano en México por
Konrad Ratz y Amparo Gómez Temexicuapan
María del Carmen Pérez
Cuevas, José Luis Blasio. Historia de vida a través
de documentos personales
Thesis, Dept. History,
UNAM, Mexico City, 1998.
>>Read my notes about this
thesis and José Luis Blasio
here.
Alberto Hans, Un lugarteniente del Imperio
Por José N. Iturriaga de la Fuente. Mexico
Desconocido, octubre de 1989.
"Maximilian
and Mexico's First Steps Toward the Global Marketplace (1864-1866)"
By Dr
Robert H. Duncan
"Only
"Selected" German Immigrants in Yucatán? Recent
Findings about the Colonization Policy of the Second Mexican
Empire" Paper presented at the 11th Deutschsprachige Mesoamerikanisten
Tagung in Hildesheim, Germany (26th, 27th, January, 2008)
By Alma
Duran-Merk
"Los
colonos alemanes en Yucatán durante el Segundo Imperio
Mexicano" Conferencia dictada el 12 de marzo de 2008 en
la Sala José Martí (Mérida Yucatán,
México) en ocasión del nombramiento de Alma Durán-Merk
como Miembro Asociado de la Cátedra Nuestra América
por la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad
Autónoma de Yucatán
By Alma
Duran-Merk
"When
Mexico Had the Blues: A Transatlantic Tale of Bonds, Bankers,
and Nationalists 1862-1910"
By Steven
C. Topik
"A
Court Ball at the Palace of Mexico"
By William
Wells. The Overland Monthly, 1868
Books
Available On-line
Maximilian
in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention
1862-1867
by Sara Yorke
Stevenson
Proceso
de Fernando Maximiliano de Habsburgo, Miguel Miramón y
Tomas Mejía
(The
Trial of Maximilian von Habsburg and the Generals Miguel Miramon
and Tomas Mejia) with an introduction by Chantal Lopez and
Omar Cortez.
Books
Reviewed
 Visit my blog, Maximilian
~ Carlota
for reviews of many titles about the Second Empire / French Intervention,
among them, works by José Luis Blasio, Sraa Yorke Stevenson,
Thomas Settles, Konrad Ratz, Margarita López Cano, and
many more.
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