Raymond Jonas, Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington and author of Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, joins the show to discuss a failed-but-spectacular 19th Century attempt by European powers to undermine the Monroe Doctrine.
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• 01:42 Introduction
• 03:31 Transatlantic relations
• 05:20 Europe distracted
• 08:39 Secession and unrest
• 12:46 Maximillian I
• 17:55 Continental powers
• 20:01 Britain, France and Spain
• 26:13 What the Americans did right
• 28:23 Napoleon III
• 30:09 Mexico and the Confederacy
• 35:20 Slavery adjacent
• 38:46 What went wrong
• 42:07 Benito Juarez
• 44:33 Maximillian’s execution
• 46:20 European alarm
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