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    The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World

    Jan 12, 2022 3 minutes
    By Edward Shawcross

    Faber £20

    If you’ve encountered Emperor Maximilian of Mexico before, there’s a good chance it was via Edouard Manet’s painting of his execution in 1867 in a dusty yard in Queretaro. Nothing so distinguished Maximilian’s life as the manner of his leaving it.

    The portentous title of Edward Shawcross’s new history of Maximilian’s ill-fated rule in Mexico acknowledges as much. Almost unavoidably, the shadow of the firing squad looms over his narrative from the start.

    Maximilian was

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