How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order
How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order: The Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, June 19, 1867 Edouard ManetWikimedia Commons In 1867, the world’s most powerful statesmen, including Austria’s Emperor Franz Josef, France’s Napoleon III and US secretary of state, William H. Seward, petitioned the Mexican government to spare the …
