Geopolitics and Resilience: The French Campaign in Mexico

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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