Ep 192: Raymond Jonas on Europe’s War on the Monroe Doctrine (~165 year 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.

Raymond Jonas, Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington and author of <a href="https://a.co/d/b3r0DyN">Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire</a>, 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 <a href="https://bit.ly/41EloxN">Follow along</a> on Instagram, X <a href="https://x.com/schoolofwarpod">@schoolofwarpod</a>, and YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@SchoolofWarPodcast">@SchoolofWarPodcast</a> Find a transcript of today’s episode on our <a href="http://schoolofwar.substack.com/">School of War Substack</a>

Ep 192: Raymond Jonas on Europe’s War on the Monroe Doctrine (~165 years ago)

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