Our next book is Maximillian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico, (2015, pp 552).

 

Maximilian and Carlota offers a vivid portrait of the unusual marriage of Maximilian and Carlota and of international high society and politics at this critical nineteenth-century juncture. This largely unknown era in the history of the Americas comes to life through this colorful telling of the couple’s tragic reign.

 

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