The grandchildren of Solano L�opez : frontier and nation in Paraguay, 1904-1936 / Bridget Mar�ia Chesterton.
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TextPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (193 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color), portraitsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780826353498 (e-book)
- 989.2/06 23
- F2688 .C44 2013eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing the Chaco frontier -- Forgetting Solano L�opez : debating the Paraguayan foundational narrative -- Managing Rojas Silva : rhetoric and inaction -- Comparing eastern and western Paraguay : scientific nationalism -- Civilizing the Chaco : the religious arrive -- Becoming Guaran�i : soldiers, agriculturalists, and poets -- Remembering Solano L�opez : the rise of febrerismo -- Reconsidering the frontier : the decades following the war.
"Paraguay's Chaco frontier unleashed possibly the bloodiest twentieth-century war in the Americas, the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia (1932-35). This study of Paraguayan nationalism analyzes the role of the Chaco frontier in Paraguay's perception of itself during the period leading up to the Chaco War"--Provided by publisher.
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