Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- 1 Population
- 2 The Latin American economies, 1929–1939
- 3 The Latin American economies, 1939–c. 1950
- 4 The Latin American economies, 1950–1990
- 5 Urban growth and urban social structure
- 6 Agrarian structures
- 7 State organization
- 8 Democracy
- 9 The Left
- 10 The military in politics
- 11 The urban working class and labour movements
- 12 Rural mobilizations
- 13 Women in twentieth-century Latin America
- 14 The Catholic church
- 15 The Protestant churches
- 16 Mexico, c. 1930–1946
- 17 Mexico since 1946
- 18 Central America
- 19 Guatemala
- 20 El Salvador
- 21 Honduras
- 22 Nicaragua
- 23 Costa Rica
- 24 Panama
- 25 The Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1979
- 26 Cuba, c. 1930–1959
- 27 Cuba since 1959
- 28 The Dominican Republic
- 29 Haiti
- 30 Puerto Rico
- 31 Argentina, 1930–1946
- 32 Argentina since 1946
- 33 Uruguay
- 34 Paraguay
- 35 Chile, c. 1930–c. 1960
- 36 Chile since c. 1960
- 37 Peru, 1930–c. 1960
- 38 Peru since c. 1960
- 39 Bolivia
- 40 Colombia
- 41 Ecuador
- 42 Venezuela
- 43 Brazil
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
34 - Paraguay
from VII - LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- 1 Population
- 2 The Latin American economies, 1929–1939
- 3 The Latin American economies, 1939–c. 1950
- 4 The Latin American economies, 1950–1990
- 5 Urban growth and urban social structure
- 6 Agrarian structures
- 7 State organization
- 8 Democracy
- 9 The Left
- 10 The military in politics
- 11 The urban working class and labour movements
- 12 Rural mobilizations
- 13 Women in twentieth-century Latin America
- 14 The Catholic church
- 15 The Protestant churches
- 16 Mexico, c. 1930–1946
- 17 Mexico since 1946
- 18 Central America
- 19 Guatemala
- 20 El Salvador
- 21 Honduras
- 22 Nicaragua
- 23 Costa Rica
- 24 Panama
- 25 The Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1979
- 26 Cuba, c. 1930–1959
- 27 Cuba since 1959
- 28 The Dominican Republic
- 29 Haiti
- 30 Puerto Rico
- 31 Argentina, 1930–1946
- 32 Argentina since 1946
- 33 Uruguay
- 34 Paraguay
- 35 Chile, c. 1930–c. 1960
- 36 Chile since c. 1960
- 37 Peru, 1930–c. 1960
- 38 Peru since c. 1960
- 39 Bolivia
- 40 Colombia
- 41 Ecuador
- 42 Venezuela
- 43 Brazil
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
Modern Paraguay begins with the Chaco War (1932–5), which has been studied by many Paraguayan and Bolivian historians, usually in a polemical fashion. An objective study, in English, is David Zook, The Conduct of the Chaco War (New Haven, Conn., 1960). Also of interest from the Paraguayan perspective are the memoirs of the victorious commander-in-chief José Félix Estigarribia, The Epic of the Chaco: Marshal Estigarribia’s Memoirs of the Chaco War, translated and edited by Pablo Max Ynsfrán (Austin, Tex., 1950). On the postwar peace negotiations with Bolivia, see Leslie B. Rout, Jr., Politics of of the Chaco Peace Conference, 1935–1939 (Austin, Tex., 1970). See also Gustavo A. Riart, El Dr. Luis A. Riart y la defensa del Chaco (Asunción, 1987); Agustín Blujaki, ‘Presencia de la iglesia católica durante la Guerra del Chaco’, Estudios Paraguayos (December 1984); Leandro Aponte Benitez, La aviación paraguaya en la Guerra del Chaco (Asunción, 1985); Ramiro Escobar, Ráfagas de metralletas, sangre en los pajonales: Guerra del Chaco (Asunción, 1982); Lorenzo Livieres Guggiari, El financiamiento de la Guerra del Chaco, 1924–1935: Un desafío al liberalismo economico (Asunción, 1983).
The February Revolution of 1936 also generated much polemical literature. The essential English-language work on the revolution, and the Febrerista party that grew out of it, is Paul H. Lewis, The Politics of Exile (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1968). The most complete defence of Colonel Franco’s government is by his foreign affairs minister, Juan Stefanich, whose four-volume Capitulos de la revolucion paraguaya was published while Stefanich was in exile in Buenos Aires during 1945 and 1946.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 768 - 771Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995