What can historical research be used for if not to better understand the present? Here is an exemplary book in this regard. In
Sale Guerre,
an ironic title because we know that there is no proper war, Éric Taladoire reminds us of the way in which the victors, in this case the United States, have long told each other the story of a conflict that lasted two years, from its outbreak on May 13, 1846 until the Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo, signed in February 1848, which saw the young Mexican state, independent of Spain since 1821, losing nearly half of its territory, i.e. 2,600,000 km2. Territories that include not only present-day New Mexico or a Texas which seceded from Mexico in 1836, but also Arizona, Utah, Colorado and part of California. "
Who realizes, nowadays, that the very name of Las Vegas, one of the symbols of triumphant American capitalism, implies Hispanic foundations?
», Wonders the author, who goes back to the sources
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