ISBN: 9781541674196
Editorial: Shawcross, Edward
Autor: Shawcross, Edward
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 336
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Críticas "Shawcross deftly reexamines the tragicomic rule of the Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maximilian... In Shawcross's persuasive retelling, Maximilian was a well-intentioned, if flawed, Enlightenment ruler buffeted by the great forces of the mid-nineteenth century."--Foreign Affairs"Shawcross's fascinating debut is keenly attuned to the ironies and tragedies that Maximilian faced in his ill-fated task."--Guardian"A majestic history... Shawcross's vivid details turn the emperor into a character as ornate as the silk tapestries he imported. Such attention to the minutiae--including Maximilian's hunt for rare larvae--makes his demise all the more heartrending." --Daniel Rey, The Spectator"A superbly entertaining and well-researched account that sets a new standard for histories of the doomed escapade."--Financial Times"Devouring Edward Shawcross's gripping book set in the 1860s, I was screaming at the hapless Austrian Archduke Maximilian: 'Don't do it!' ... [Shawcross] is an eloquent writer, good at showing both sides of an argument." --Ysenda Maxtone Graham, The Daily Mail"Edward Shawcross, a historian and first-time author, has a terrific story to tell here and he tackles it with real brio and narrative punch. This is a page-turning history of imperial hubris and nemesis, deceit and delusion, love and betrayal on a grand scale, written in an easy, lucid style." --Justin Marozzi, The Sunday Times"Here is a well-researched, ably written, consistently interesting, and mercifully short book that deserves reading."--New Criterion"One virtue of Shawcross's book is his uncovering of the non-comic aspects of Maximilian's story, almost all involving the true villain, Napoleon III of France.... Shawcross's entertaining, just occasionally over-detailed account leaves the emperor with some dignity, weaving the warp of his ridiculousness with the darker threads of his betrayal by his imperial allies in Europe." --Julian Evans, The Daily Telegraph"Shawcross... is especially good at describing the cultural gulf between the imperial couple and their subjects and their adopted realm... [P]owerfully and authoritatively, he places an episode often dismissed as an ego-driven historical absurdity within the deeper context of Mexico's history...This is history as at once both tragedy and farce." --Paul Lay, The Times, Book of the Week (UK)"Mr. Shawcross, a British historian, creates a balanced and deeply human portrait of the emperor...[a] deeply researched narrative."--Wall Street Journal"Crisply written and meticulously researched, Shawcross's engaging book tells a lively story that will appeal to most history buffs."--Library Journal"'They are going to Mexico, which I cannot understand, ' wrote Queen Victoria, after dining with the royal couple chosen to reign over an unwilling nation that they had yet to see. No wonder she was perplexed. The story of how Mexico, having been halved by its aggressive neighbor to the north, was then invaded by one of Europe's old empires, defies credulity and easy comprehension. Sure enough, Edward Shawcross seems almost to make fiction of it, deftly deploying his novelist's eye for page-turning narrative and compellingly drawn characters. Yet as improbable as it may seem, this was a very real and very tragic chapter in two extraordinary histories--that of Mexico, and that of the arrogance of empire. If only a copy of The Last Emperor of Mexico could be sent back in time to the British queen. She would not have been able to put it down, and, in the end, would surely have understood." --Matthew Restall, author of When Montezuma Met Cortés"France's doomed efforts to install an emperor in Mexico have long been treated as a bizarre but minor sideshow to the Civil War in the United States. In this engrossing, fast-paced book, Edward Shawcross tells the story of the French Intervention in its own right, giving a deeply human portrait of a feckless Austrian Archduke Maximilian, who cares more for court etiquette
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Shawcross, Edward
- Editorial: Shawcross, Edward
- N° Paginas: 336
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
