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Colección de ensayos y estudios de Arnaldo Momigliano que constituye el conjunto más importante de escritos breves de cualquier investigador contemporáneo en los campos de la historia y de la civilización clásicas. La obra de Momigliano, nos hace reflexionar sobre la historia antigua y acerca de la interpretación histórica en general.

Esta obra rescata debates trabados en el Congreso nacional en torno a un par de iniciativas gubernamentales destinadas a establecer los primeros instrumentos modernos de protección del patrimonio arqueológico mexicano. Estos debates, que surgieron durante la última década del siglo XIX, fueron la respuesta a las depredaciones y saqueos practicados por exploradores extranjeros independientes y por agentes de coleccionistas y de los grandes museos del centro-este de Estados Unidos. Se trata de textos parlamentarios de difícil acceso que hoy se ponen al alcance de estudiosos de la historia...

The true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico—and faced bloody consequences. In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the emperor and empress of Mexico. They and their entourage arrived in a Mexico ruled by terror, where revolutionary fervor was barely suppressed by French troops. When the United States, now clear of its own Civil War, aided the rebels in pushing back Maximilian’s imperial soldiers,...