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The Paraguay reader : history, culture, politics / Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson, eds.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Latin America readers.
- World readers.
- The Latin America readers
- The world readers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Paraguay.
- Indians of South America.
- Paraguay--History.
- Paraguay.
- Paraguay--Civilization.
- Paraguay--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (497 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This lively compilation of testimonies, journalism, scholarship, political tracts, literature, and illustrations conveys Paraguay's rich history and cultural heritage, as well as its struggles against underdevelopment, foreign intervention, poverty, inequality, and authoritarianism.
- Contents:
- The foundation of human speech / León Cadogan
- Contact, servitude and resistance / Branislava Susnik
- Spanish-Guaraní relations in early colonial Paraguay / Elman R. Service
- The land-without-evil / Hélène Clastres
- The Republic of Plato and the Guaraní / José Manuel Peramás
- A vanished Arcadia / R.B. Cunninghame Graham
- The revolt of the Comuneros / Adalberto López
- A report on Paraguay in the London press of 1824 / Anonymous
- A nation held hostage / Justo Prieto
- In defense of Doctor Francia / Richard Alan White
- Autonomy, authoritarianism and development / Thomas Whigham
- The Treaty of the Triple Alliance : "I Die with my Country!" / Thomas Whigham
- A chronicle of war / Leandro Pineda
- The Lomas Valentinas note / Francisco Solano López
- Memoirs of the Paraguayan war / Gaspar Centurión
- The women of Piribebuy / Juan O'Leary
- The death of López at Cerro Corá / Silvestre Aveiro
- Sufferings of a French lady in Paraguay / Dorotea Duprat de Lasserre
- Declaration and protest / Eliza Lynch
- The psychology of López / William Stewart
- Paraguayan society in the post-war decade / Harris Gaylord Warren
- The "Lincolnshire Farmers" in Paraguay / Annie Elizabeth Kennett
- My pilgrimage to Caacupé / Norman O. Brown
- What it's like to work in the yerba plantations / Rafael Barrett
- The treatment of tree-fellers and timber workers / Reinaldo López Fretes
- The golden age (without a nickel) / Helio Vera
- The causes of poverty in Paraguay / Teodosio González
- The Mennonites arrive in the Chaco / Walter Quiring
- The Paraguatan character / Juan Sinforiano Bogarín
- The Paraguatan people and their natural tendencies / Natalicio González
- Cultural exile / Agustín Barrios
- Profession of faith / Agustín Barrios
- A new national ideology / Oscar Creydt ... [et.al.]
- Capturing volunteers / Carlos Reyes
- The Battle of Boquerón / Alfredo Seiferheld
- Memoirs of a man from Concepción / Carlos María Sienra Bonzi
- A visit to Villa Hayes Military Hospital number 16 / Reginald Thompson
- Scenes of thirst / Hugo Rodríguez Alcalá
- A handful of earth / Herib Campos Cervera
- Proclamation of the Febrerista Revolution / F.W. Smith and Camilo Recalde
- How beautiful your voice : accounts of the history of the Enlhet of Ya'alve-Saanga / Ernesto Unruh and Hannes Kalisch
- The Revolution of 1947 / Carlos María Sienra Bonzi as told to Roberto Sienra Zavala
- A half hour in my childhood / Eva Bichsel
- Toward a Weberian characterization of the Stroessner regime / Marcial Riquelme
- The revolutionary spirit of the Colorado Party / Luis María Argaña
- The tragedy of Fram / Jorge Rubiani
- Be careful, dictator / Elvio Romero
- The worm in the lotus blossom / Graham Greene
- A short history of the Northern Ache people / Kim Hill
- The testimony of Saturnina Almada
- An interview with Corsino Coronel
- Apocalypse / Alfredo Boccia
- My farewell speech / Carmen Lara Castro
- The death of Somoza / Claribel Alegria and Darwin Flakoll
- My vote is for the people / Alcibiades González Delvalle
- Writing as a metaphor for exile / Augusto Roa Bastos
- Paraguay's terror archive / Andrew Nickson
- "A Hundred and Eight" and a burned body : the story not told by the Truth and Justice Commission / Anselmo Ramos
- The final report of the Truth and Justice Commission / Andrés D. Ramírez
- Alfredo Stroessner : revisiting the general / Isabel Hilton
- Re-establishing the status quo / Andrew Nickson
- We have left our barracks / Andrés Rodríguez
- My deepest respects to the Colorado Party / Helio Vera
- The characteristics of Oviedismo / Milda Rivarola
- In homage to the victims of Ycuá Bolaños / Luis Irala
- Where are they? / Alberto Rodas
- The Ayoreo people / Mateo Sobode Chiquenoi
- So much exoticism can be deceptive / Alfredo Boccia Paz
- Inaugural presidential speech / Fernando Lugo Méndez
- First person : Margarita Mbywangi / as told to Jude Webber
- Lessons on paternity from Lugo / Clyde Soto
- Itaipú : an historic achievement that will need to be closely monitored / Ricardo Canese
- A fine woman / Andrés Colmán Gutiérrez
- Ciudad del Este's deadly trade route / Jude Webber
- The challenge of conserving a natural Chaco habitat in the face of severe deforestation pressure and human development needs / Alberto Yanosky
- History, identity and Paraguayidad / Peter Lambert
- Change and continuity in Paraguayan history? 1811, 1911, 2011 / Andrew Nickson
- The Arcadian tragedy / George Pendle
- The bicentenary of Paraguayan independence and of the Guaraní language / Miguel Ángel Verón
- The Afro-descendants of Paraguay / Ignacio Telesca
- Authoritarian ideology : final comments / Guido Rodríguez Alcalá
- With the help of Doña Petrona we make an incursion into folk cuisine / Helio Vera
- Enough of the triple alliance / Jorge Rubiani
- Tereré as a social bond / Derlis Benítez Alvarenga
- The status of women / Riordan Roett and Richard Scott Sacks
- Self portrait, Bernarda María and the Serpent / Pepa Kostianovsky
- Erico / Jorge Barraza
- Recipe for Chipa Guazú / Doña Aída
- National anthem in Guaraní / Félix de Guarania.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822395393
- 0822395398
- 9781283925020
- 1283925028
- OCLC:
- 1202623707
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