France, Mexico and Informal Empire in Latin America, 1820-1867 Equilibrium in the New World /

• Main Author: Shawcross, Edward (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Subjects: America-History.; France-History.; Imperialism.; History of the Americas.; History of France.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

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 c...

Table of Contents:

• 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.