Maximilian, Mexico, and the invention of empire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ibsen, Kristine, 1961-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2010.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Mexico > History > European intervention, 1861-1867 > Historiography. Mexico > History > European intervention, 1861-1867 > Press coverage. Maximilian, > Emperor of Mexico, > 1832-1867 > Historiography. Carlota, > Empress, consort of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, > 1840-1927 > Historiography. Manet, Édouard, > 1832-1883. > Execution of the Emperor Maximilian. Paso, Fernando del, > 1935- > Noticias del imperio. Juárez (Motion picture)

Table of Contents:

Inventing an empire and imagining the nation : visual culture in occupied Mexico
The view from Paris : spectacle and spectator in Édouard Manet's Execution of Maximilian
Showing the invisible : the cinematic use of the past in Juárez
Eyes to see otherwise : Fernando del Paso's Noticias del imperio on the edge of empire.