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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
by Camilla Townsend. Oxford University Press, 320 pp., $29.95; $21.95 (paper)
The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations by Frances F. Berdan. Reaktion, 232 pp., $25.00
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest by Fernando Cervantes. Viking, 493 pp., $35.00
Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Guide to Nahuatl Writing by Gordon Whittaker. University of California Press, 210 Pp., $34.95
J. H. Elliott, NYR, 02.12.2021
Michael Ledger-Lomas · Finished Off by Chagrin: Monarchs and Emperors · LRB 21 July 2022.
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World
by Edward Shawcross.
Faber, 336 pp., £20, January, 978 0 571 36057 4
In the war of 1914, Germany drafted a secret note proposing an alliance against the United States, offering in return the restitution of what could hardly be called the Mexican Alsace-Lorraine, the states of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah and Nevada. In a moment of abstraction, Dr Albrecht, a member of the German Embassy, left the dispatch case with the draft in a carriage of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway of New York City. The contents were published in the N. Y. World. Mexico remained neutral.)
Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio.
https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-zimmermann-telegram