Mexico and the foreign policy of Napoleon III

Countering the traditional interpretation of Napoleon III's motives for intervening in Mexico (a Catholic French imperial block to US Protestant expansionism), this book by the Australian Academic Michele Cunningham claims that the second emperor's ideas were simply not merely imperial and agressive but rather liberal and aimed at encouraging free trade worldwide.
 
Contents:
Introduction p. 1
1 – Prelude to Intervention
2 – The Tripartite Convention
3 – The Venture under Way
4 – A Life of its Own
5 – 'A Chaos of Difficulties'
6 – The Will of the People?
7 – The Empire Does Mean Peace
8 – 'A Noble and Chimerical Utopia'
9 – La Plus Grande Pensee du Regne?
Includes  Bibliography and Index