Describes the life of the Mexican president who instituted many social reforms and led his country in a war of independence.

Based on archival research, this study of Pancho Villa aims to separate myth from history. It looks at Villa's early life as an outlaw and his emergence as a na

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

This is a book which is long overdue and one that treats Lincoln as an international figure, not merely an American one. It examines events leading to the US in