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France, Mexico and informal empire in Latin America, 1820-1867equilibrium in the New World /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	France, Mexico and informal empire in Latin America, 1820-1867by Edward Shawcross.
Reminder of title:	equilibrium in the New World /
Author:	Shawcross, Edward.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018.
Description:	x, 294 p. :digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	History.
Subject:	FranceIntellectual life19th century.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70464-7
ISBN:	9783319704647$q(electronic bk.)

France, Mexico and informal empire in Latin America, 1820-1867equilibrium in the New World /
Shawcross, Edward.

France, Mexico and informal empire in Latin America, 1820-1867equilibrium in the New World /[electronic resource] :by Edward Shawcross. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - x, 294 p. :digital ;22 cm. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series..

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: French Policy towards Latin America, 1820-60 -- Chapter 3: Monarchy and the Search for Order in Mexico -- Chapter 4: Towards Pan-Latinism -- Chapter 5: The Western Question -- Chapter 6: The Limits of Informal Empire: French Intervention and the Mexican Second Empire -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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.

ISBN: 9783319704647$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-70464-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

263737
History.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

388979
France
--Intellectual life--19th century.

LC Class. No.: DC276.5 / .S47 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 972.04

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