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The Paraguay reader : history, culture, politics /

The Paraguay reader : history, culture, politics / Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson, eds. - Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2013. - xii, 475 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - The Latin America readers The world readers . - Latin America readers. World readers. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The foundation of human speech / LeoÌn Cadogan -- Contact, servitude and resistance / Branislava Susnik -- Spanish-GuaraniÌ relations in early colonial Paraguay / Elman R. Service -- The land-without-evil / HeÌleÌne Clastres -- The Republic of Plato and the GuaraniÌ / JoseÌ Manuel PeramaÌs -- A vanished Arcadia / R.B. Cunninghame Graham -- The revolt of the Comuneros / Adalberto LoÌpez -- 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 LoÌpez -- Memoirs of the Paraguayan war / Gaspar CenturioÌn -- The women of Piribebuy / Juan O'Leary -- The death of LoÌpez at Cerro CoraÌ / Silvestre Aveiro -- Sufferings of a French lady in Paraguay / Dorotea Duprat de Lasserre -- Declaration and protest / Eliza Lynch -- The psychology of LoÌpez / William Stewart -- Paraguayan society in the post-war decade / Harris Gaylord Warren -- The "Lincolnshire Farmers" in Paraguay / Annie Elizabeth Kennett -- My pilgrimage to CaacupeÌ / Norman O. Brown -- What it's like to work in the yerba plantations / Rafael Barrett -- The treatment of tree-fellers and timber workers / Reinaldo LoÌpez Fretes -- The golden age (without a nickel) / Helio Vera -- The causes of poverty in Paraguay / Teodosio GonzaÌlez -- The Mennonites arrive in the Chaco / Walter Quiring -- The Paraguatan character / Juan Sinforiano BogariÌn -- The Paraguatan people and their natural tendencies / Natalicio GonzaÌlez -- Cultural exile / AgustiÌn Barrios -- Profession of faith / AgustiÌn Barrios -- A new national ideology / Oscar Creydt ... [et.al.] -- Capturing volunteers / Carlos Reyes -- The Battle of BoqueroÌn / Alfredo Seiferheld -- Memoirs of a man from ConcepcioÌn / Carlos MariÌa Sienra Bonzi -- A visit to Villa Hayes Military Hospital number 16 / Reginald Thompson -- Scenes of thirst / Hugo RodriÌguez AlcalaÌ -- 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 MariÌa 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 MariÌa ArganÌa -- 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 GonzaÌlez 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 / AndreÌs D. RamiÌrez -- Alfredo Stroessner : revisiting the general / Isabel Hilton -- Re-establishing the status quo / Andrew Nickson -- We have left our barracks / AndreÌs RodriÌguez -- My deepest respects to the Colorado Party / Helio Vera -- The characteristics of Oviedismo / Milda Rivarola -- In homage to the victims of YcuaÌ BolanÌos / 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 MeÌndez -- First person : Margarita Mbywangi / as told to Jude Webber -- Lessons on paternity from Lugo / Clyde Soto -- ItaipuÌ : an historic achievement that will need to be closely monitored / Ricardo Canese -- A fine woman / AndreÌs ColmaÌn GutieÌrrez -- 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 GuaraniÌ language / Miguel AÌngel VeroÌn -- The Afro-descendants of Paraguay / Ignacio Telesca -- Authoritarian ideology : final comments / Guido RodriÌguez AlcalaÌ -- With the help of DonÌa Petrona we make an incursion into folk cuisine / Helio Vera -- Enough of the triple alliance / Jorge Rubiani -- TerereÌ as a social bond / Derlis BeniÌtez Alvarenga -- The status of women / Riordan Roett and Richard Scott Sacks -- Self portrait, Bernarda MariÌa and the Serpent / Pepa Kostianovsky -- Erico / Jorge Barraza -- Recipe for Chipa GuazuÌ / DonÌa AiÌda -- National anthem in GuaraniÌ / FeÌlix de Guarania.

9780822352495 9780822352686

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Indians of South America--Paraguay.


Paraguay--History.
Paraguay--Civilization.
Paraguay--Social life and customs.

F2668 / .P255 2013

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