Habsburgs On The Rio Grande: Rise And Fall Of Second Mexican Empire Raymond Jonas Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

The Story Of How Nineteenth-Century European Rulers Conspired With Mexican Conservatives In An Outlandish Plan To Contain Rising Us Colossus By Establishing Old World Empire On Its Doorstep Outbreak Civil War Provided Unexpected Opportunity For Political Across Continents One Side Were Monarchs Mere Decades After Founding United States Had Become A Threat Hegemony Instability Could Be Exploited Lay Rival Low Meanwhile Antidemocrats Needed Powerful Backer Fend Off Republicanism Benito Juárez When These Two Groups Found Each Other Second Was Born Raymond Jonas Argues That Often Dismissed As Historical Sideshow Is Critical Appreciating Globally Destabilizing Effect Growing Power Nineteenth Century 1862 At Behest Reactionaries And Initial Support Spain Britain Napoleon Iii France Sent Troops Into Mexico Installed Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Imperial Ruler Who Resist Democracy North America But What Supposed Easy Victory Proved Disaster French Army Routed Battle Puebla Next Four Years Republican Guerrillas Bled Would-Be Ended African American Dispatched Hasten Withdrawal Based Research Five Languages Archives Globe Habsburgs Rio Grande Fundamentally Revises Narratives Global History Far More Than Footnote Center World-Historic Great-Power Struggles—A Point Inflection Contest Supremacy Set Terms Twentieth-Century Rivalry Σελίδες: 384 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0729 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm