Michael Ledger-Lomas · Finished Off by Chagrin: Monarchs and Emperors · LRB 21 July 2022.
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World
by Edward Shawcross.
Faber, 336 pp., £20, January, 978 0 571 36057 4
King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the 19th Century
by Andrew Fitzmaurice.
Princeton, 592 pp., £35, February, 978 0 691 14869 4
by Andrew Fitzmaurice.
Princeton, 592 pp., £35, February, 978 0 691 14869 4
The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire
by Matthew Fitzpatrick.
Oxford, 416 pp., £90, February, 978 0 19 289703 9
by Matthew Fitzpatrick.
Oxford, 416 pp., £90, February, 978 0 19 289703 9