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Ep 192: Raymond Jonas on Europe’s War on the Monroe Doctrine (~165 years ago)
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Raymond Jonas, Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington and author of Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, joins the show to discuss a failed-but-spectacular 19th Century attempt by European powers to undermine the Monroe Doctrine.
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• 01:42 Introduction
• 03:31 Transatlantic relations
• 05:20 Europe distracted
• 08:39 Secession and unrest
• 12:46 Maximillian I
• 17:55 Continental powers
• 20:01 Britain, France and Spain
• 26:13 What the Americans did right
• 28:23 Napoleon III
• 30:09 Mexico and the Confederacy
• 35:20 Slavery adjacent
• 38:46 What went wrong
• 42:07 Benito Juarez
• 44:33 Maximillian’s execution
• 46:20 European alarm
Follow along on Instagram, X @schoolofwarpod, and YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
195 episodes
Manage episode 478982447 series 2998419
Raymond Jonas, Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington and author of Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, joins the show to discuss a failed-but-spectacular 19th Century attempt by European powers to undermine the Monroe Doctrine.
▪️
Times
• 01:42 Introduction
• 03:31 Transatlantic relations
• 05:20 Europe distracted
• 08:39 Secession and unrest
• 12:46 Maximillian I
• 17:55 Continental powers
• 20:01 Britain, France and Spain
• 26:13 What the Americans did right
• 28:23 Napoleon III
• 30:09 Mexico and the Confederacy
• 35:20 Slavery adjacent
• 38:46 What went wrong
• 42:07 Benito Juarez
• 44:33 Maximillian’s execution
• 46:20 European alarm
Follow along on Instagram, X @schoolofwarpod, and YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
195 episodes
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