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The Last Emperor of Mexico

by Edward Shawcross

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · March 27, 2022

Liberalism in crisis

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An account of the ignoble end of a Habsburg Archduke who, aided by Napoleon III, crossed the world to become Emperor of Mexico, set against shifts in global power between Old Europe and American imperialism in the 19th century.

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