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France, Mexico and Informal Empire in Latin America, 1820-1867 - Equilibrium in the New World (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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France, Mexico and Informal Empire in Latin America, 1820-1867 - Equilibrium in the New World (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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This book explores French imperialism in Latin America in the
nineteenth century, taking Mexico as a case study. The standard
narrative of nineteenth-century imperialism in Latin America is one
of US expansion and British informal influence. However, it was
France, not Britain, which made the most concerted effort to
counter US power through Louis-Napoleon's military intervention in
Mexico, begun in 1862, which created an empire on the North
American continent under the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand
Maximilian. Despite its significance to French and Latin American
history, this French imperial project is invariably described as an
"illusion", an "adventure" or a "mirage". This book challenges
these conclusions and places the French intervention in Mexico
within the context of informal empire. It analyses French and
Mexican ideas about monarchy in Latin America; responses to US
expansion and the development of anti-Americanism and pan-Latinism;
the consolidation of Mexican conservatism; and, finally, the
collaboration of some Mexican elites with French imperialism. An
important dimension of the relationship between Mexico and France,
explored in the book, is the transatlantic and transnational
context in which it developed, where competing conceptions of
Mexico and France as nations, the role of Europe and the United
States in the Americas and the idea of Latin America itself were
challenged and debated.
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