Recollections of Mexico: The Last Ten Months of Maximilian's Empire

by Samuel M. Basch

Book Overview

iThe events described herein are intended to be a new public contributionto the history of the Mexican Empire. I have seen and experienced these events during the most memorable months of my life./i With these words, an unlikely individual began to pen a valuable historical memoir. What started as a volunteer mission to Mexico quickly thrust obscure Samuel Basch, Austrian medical doctor, into the role of confidant and personal physician to Maximilian,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842029621
• ISBN13: 9780842029629
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"