Geopolitics
A Small Country Reaches Overseas
An empress in Mexico, a king who owned the Congo, and what an apology settles
Charlotte · Leopold II · Morel and Casement · Lumumba · 4 chapters · 11 min read
A Belgian empress in Mexico, a king who owned the Congo, and what an apology settles.
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Mexico, the Congo, and the accounting
- 01The Empress From BrusselsOn a Belgian princess who became a Mexican empress, and the army sent after her.
- 02A Country Owned by a PersonOn a territory that was owned by a person, and an incentive that nobody inspected.
- 03The Clerk Who Noticed the ShipsOn a shipping clerk who read the manifests, and reform achieved by embarrassment.
- 04Forty Years to Say ItOn an independence that lasted weeks, and a finding that took forty years.