“The Last Emperor of Mexico”: A Conversation with Edward Shawcross

In his new book, “The Last Emperor of Mexico: Disaster in the New World,” Edward Shawcross brings to life one of the most fascinating –but often caricatured– figures in Mexican history: Maximilian.

The Hapsburg archduke and ill-fated emperor of Mexico was, according to Shawcross, “a man used to bending the world to his imagination,” whose tragedy played out against the backdrop of imperialist hubris and a clash between Old and New Worlds.

Join Convergence Lab for a conversation with Shawcross, Patricia Galeana, historian at the UNAM Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, and Alexander Aviña, an associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University.

The conversation will be bilingual and include simultaneous ENG-SPA translation