The last emperor of Mexico : the dramatic story of the Habsburg Archduke who created a kingdom in the new world /
In the 1860s, Napoleon III persuaded a young Austrian Archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the Emperor and Empress of Mexico. Political novices Maximilian and Carlota accepted the throne and arrived in a Mexico newly pacified by a French army of 30,000 troops ruled by terror, p...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Shawcross, Edward
(Author) |
| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Basic Books,
[2021].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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