Chesterton, Bridget María, 1973- author.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013]
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Notes:
- 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.
Subjects:
- Paraguay — History — 1870-1938.
- Chaco War, 1932-1935.
- Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia) — History — 20th century.
- Nationalism — Paraguay — History — 20th century.
- Boundaries — Paraguay — History — 20th century.
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