La Capital: The Biography of Mexico CityRandom House, 1988 - 640 σελίδες The history of Mexico City is a sweeping, dramatic saga of individuals confronting victory and defeat, opulence and misery, euphoria and catastrophe. A colorful panorama, told by a Latin American correspondent of the New York Times. 16 pages of photos. |
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... French army , reinforced by 4,500 troops , then prepared to march inland alone . In the months before launching his invasion , Napoleon had already begun a search for a puppet monarch for Mexico . Eugénie and her friend Hidalgo had ...
... French army , reinforced by 4,500 troops , then prepared to march inland alone . In the months before launching his invasion , Napoleon had already begun a search for a puppet monarch for Mexico . Eugénie and her friend Hidalgo had ...
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... French public opinion , which had opposed the intervention in Mexico , now clamored for the vindication of national honor . Napoleon assembled an additional thirty thousand troops , and a year later the reinforced French army swept ...
... French public opinion , which had opposed the intervention in Mexico , now clamored for the vindication of national honor . Napoleon assembled an additional thirty thousand troops , and a year later the reinforced French army swept ...
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... French occupation began , there was a deafening peal from the capital's belfries at all hours , day after day , as if to make up for the constraint of years past . Massive religious processions , joined by French army officers , wound ...
... French occupation began , there was a deafening peal from the capital's belfries at all hours , day after day , as if to make up for the constraint of years past . Massive religious processions , joined by French army officers , wound ...
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Prologue | 3 |
The Valley and Its First Inhabitants | 9 |
The Cannibal Empire | 26 |
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