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The grandchildren of Solano L�opez : frontier and nation in Paraguay, 1904-1936 / Bridget Mar�ia Chesterton.

By: Chesterton, Bridget Mar�ia, 1973-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (193 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color), portraits.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780826353498 (e-book).Subject(s): Chaco War, 1932-1935 | Nationalism -- Paraguay -- History -- 20th century | Paraguay -- History -- 1870-1938 | Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia) -- History -- 20th century | Paraguay -- Boundaries -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 989.2/06 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.
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 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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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