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Habsburgs on the Rio Grande : the rise and fall of the second Mexican Empire

Call Number

  • 972.07 J761 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2024.

Physical Description

viii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Summary

"The Second Mexican Empire has often been dismissed as a mere parenthesis in the history of the Americas. Here, Raymond Jonas shows how important it is in understanding the globally destabilizing effect of the expanded US republic. Habsburgs on the Rio Grande is a rich narrative history story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising American colossus by establishing an Old-World empire on its doorstep."--

Contents

  • Rescuing the Latin Race
  • The Vicar of Cranborne
  • Puebla
  • Pacification and Resistance
  • The Savior
  • The Seduction
  • Imperial Pageantry
  • The Empire Looks for Friends
  • Volunteers and Refugees
  • Things Fall Apart
  • Charlotte Tries Diplomacy
  • Like Pinning Butterflies
  • Querétaro, Capital of Empire
  • Empire on Trial
  • Leaving Mexico.

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