Habsburgs on the Rio Grande

Auteur
Raymond Jonas is Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History, University of Washington, Seattle.

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Largely forgotten today, the Second Mexican Empire was a transformative nineteenth-century moment. Raymond Jonas explores the conspiracy of European rulers and Mexican conservatives to erect an Old World empire on New World soil. Though quixotic, it was a scheme with a purpose: to contain both Mexican democracy and the rising United States.