This dictated that the USA was no going to stand for any more European intervention in the Americas.Īs the historian Edward Shawcross explains in this episode of Travels Through Time, the Monroe Doctrine generated a sense of unease in Europe. Eyeing even more territorial advances, in the 1820s a new policy known as the Monroe Doctrine was adopted in Washington DC. In the fifty years since the thirteen colonies had won independence from Great Britain, the USA had developed at an astonishing pace. The most obvious emerging power, however, was the United States of America. In particular the American continent – still broadly referred to by Europeans as the ‘New World – began to forge its own, fresh, modern identities, with countries like Argentina and Mexico securing their independence from Spain. *** ***Īs the nineteenth-century got underway, global geo-politics began to shift. In this episode we’re off to the nineteenth century to examine an event that Karl Marx called ‘One of the most monstrous enterprises in the annals of international history.’ Edward Shawcross takes us back to meet Maximilian, the Last Emperor of Mexico.
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