The last emperor of Mexico : a disaster in the New World
Shawcross, Edward2023
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Here is history's judgement on the events surrounding the ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico, the young Austrian archduke who in 1864 crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. He had been convinced to do so by a duplicitous Napoleon III. Keen to spread his own interests abroad, the French emperor promised Maximilian a hero's welcome, which he would ensure with his own mighty military support. Instead, Maximilian walked into a bloody guerrilla war - and with a headful of impractical ideals and a penchant for pomp and butterflies, the so-called new emperor was singularly unequipped for the task. 'The Last Emperor of Mexico' is the vivid history of this barely known, barely believable episode - a bloody tragedy of operatic proportions, and a vital debacle, the effects of which would be felt into the twentieth century and beyond.
Main title:
The last emperor of Mexico : a disaster in the New World / Edward Shawcross.
Author:
Shawcross, Edward, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2023.
Collation:
336 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780571360581 (pbk)
Dewey class:
972.07092972.07092 SHA
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3358848