The Last Emperor of Mexico
Warfare
History Hit
4.5 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Abraham Lincoln, Stag-do-esque antics, and forbidden overnight stays within the Vatican - the tale of the Last Emperor of Mexico sounds more like a period drama and not the sadly true and tragic end of Maximilian I. This week James is joined by Edward Shawcross to talk about the titular character of his new book 'The Last Emperor of Mexico: Disaster in the New World'. Together they discuss inadequate leadership, paranoid Empresses, and the role the American Civil war played beyond it's borders.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James |
| 0:05.0 | Rogers and I've got a question what does the Hapsburg Royal Family the French |
| 0:10.2 | military under Napoleon the, Abraham Lincoln and Mexico have in common. |
| 0:17.0 | Well, they come together, they merge in a remarkable history of Maximilian the first, and of well Maximilian the only, the last emperor of Mexico. |
| 0:28.0 | Maximilian believed that under his rule Mexico would one day be richer and more powerful than the United States. But in a few |
| 0:36.2 | short years his power had slipped away, eroded in the face of military defeats, economic turmoil, and deception by his allies. |
| 0:45.4 | To take us through this remarkable history, we have the brilliant historian Edward Shawcross. |
| 0:50.5 | He's the author of a new book, The Last Emperor of Mexico, a disaster in the new world. |
| 0:57.0 | Now I know you're going to love this one and we've got so many international histories that will take you round the world in 2022. |
| 1:03.4 | So drop us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your |
| 1:07.7 | podcast, or just simply share your favorite episodes with friends and family. |
| 1:12.0 | But now here is Edward Shawcross on the last |
| 1:14.8 | Emperor of Mexico enjoy. Hi Ed, welcome to the Warfare Podcast. How are you doing today? |
| 1:34.0 | Very well, thank you. It's rather cold, rainy and miserable, but otherwise well. |
| 1:38.0 | I'll take a guess at where you are in the world. Cold, wet, miserable. Are you in Britain spot on London in fact I mean there's |
| 1:46.9 | something beautiful about a rainy day in London but there's also something |
| 1:51.2 | bloody miserable isn't there well I think you probably get one too many of them when you are in London, but you know, the days are getting lighter, |
| 1:57.0 | perceptively perhaps, but they do seem to be. |
| 1:59.0 | The days are getting lighter and this podcast from the history that you've written is going |
| 2:04.9 | to transport us to warmer climates across the world and take us deep into the politics of Mexico |
| 2:11.9 | and I'm really glad that you've come on the podcast because I read |
| 2:15.2 | the review of your new book in the in the Wall Street Journal and it's fair to say that |
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