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The grandchildren of Solano López [electronic resource] : frontier and nation in Paraguay, 1904-1936 / Bridget María Chesterton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:
  • 9780826353498
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 989.2/06 23
LOC classification:
  • F2688 .C44 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Introducing the Chaco frontier -- Forgetting Solano López : 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 Guaraní : soldiers, agriculturalists, and poets -- Remembering Solano López : the rise of febrerismo -- Reconsidering the frontier : the decades following the war.
Summary: "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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing the Chaco frontier -- Forgetting Solano López : 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 Guaraní : soldiers, agriculturalists, and poets -- Remembering Solano López : 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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