The Last Emperor of Mexico - A Disaster in the New World

''Superbly entertaining.'' Financial Times ''Jaw-dropping.'' Sunday Times ''Fascinating.'' Guardian ''Gripping.'' The Times ''Terrific . . . A page-turning history of imperial hubris and nemesis, deceit and delusion, love and betrayal on a grand scale.'' Sunday Times In 1864, a young Austrian archduke by the name of Maximilian crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. He had been lured into the voyage by a duplicitous Napoleon III. Keen to spread his own interests abroad, the French emperor had promised Maximilian a hero''s welcome. Instead, he walked into a bloody guerrilla war. With a head full of impractical ideals - and a penchant for pomp and butterflies - the new ''emperor'' was singularly ill-equipped for what lay in store. This is the vivid history of this barely known, barely believable episode - a bloody tragedy of operatic proportions, the effects of which would be felt into the twentieth century and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Shawcross
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.01.2023
• EAN: 9780571360581
• ISBN: 978-0-571-36058-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Mexico, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history, History of the Americas, Napoleonic Empire, Civil wars, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands