Raymond Jonas | Emperor Maximilian and the Second Mexican Empire

Raymond Jonas is a Botstiber grant recipient and the Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington. In this episode, he discusses the rise and fall of Maximilian I and the Second Mexican Empire. A brief yet impactful period, the story of the Second Mexican Empire connects 19th century Mexico and the United States with European powers of the era and a motivated Habsburg monarch, Maximilian I.

Much of the conversation stems from Jonas' recent book,