The Last Emperor of Mexico (TRIH ep 163)
1864 · Resource
This episode features historian Edward Shawcross discussing his book The Last Emperor of Mexico with hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. They trace the improbable episode in which Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of the Habsburgs, backed by Napoleon III, becomes Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico during the French intervention (1861–1867). The conversation covers Mexico's unstable 19th-century politics, the Reform War, Benito Juárez's liberal government, European financial pressure and Napoleon...
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