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The Rise and Fall of the Paraguayan Republic, 1800–1870 / John Hoyt Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: LLILAS Latin American Monograph SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1979Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781477307069
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  • 989.2 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The "Provincia Gigante" in the Eighteenth Century -- 2. José Gaspar de Francia and the Paraguayan Revolution -- 3. Perpetual Means Forever: Francia and the Paraguayan Society -- 4. The Diplomacy of Isolation, 1820-1840 -- 5. The Supreme Dictatorship, 1820-1840 -- 6. The Old Order Changeth? -- 7. A New Paraguay Is Stirring -- 8. The Economic Pulse Quickens -- 9. The Diplomacy of Frustration -- 10. Threat and Counter-Threat: The 1850s -- 11. Foreigners and the Modernization of Paraguay -- 12. "Francisco Solano's Error: The War" -- 13. The Immolation of Paraguay -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Paraguay plays a very small role in the modern world, but for part of the nineteenth century it was a significant regional force. Between 1800 and 1865 it changed from an imperial backwater into a dynamic, dictator-led, financially sound nation. Then came the terrible War of the Triple Alliance, and by 1870 Paraguay had virtually been destroyed. John Hoyt Williams re-creates the era’s people, places, and events in rich detail and a vigorous style, but this is much more than a mere narrative. His archival research in Paraguay and several other countries enables him to offer new facts and interpretations, correct a number of misapprehensions, and explode a few myths. He also provides the clearest, most objective portraits available of the three extraordinary men who ruled Paraguay during this time: Dr. José Gaspar de Francia, “El Supremo”; Carlos Antonio López, “the Corpulent Despot”; and López’s flamboyant son Francisco Solano López. Discussions of social, economic, and cultural conditions round out a masterly account of a remarkable historical period.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The "Provincia Gigante" in the Eighteenth Century -- 2. José Gaspar de Francia and the Paraguayan Revolution -- 3. Perpetual Means Forever: Francia and the Paraguayan Society -- 4. The Diplomacy of Isolation, 1820-1840 -- 5. The Supreme Dictatorship, 1820-1840 -- 6. The Old Order Changeth? -- 7. A New Paraguay Is Stirring -- 8. The Economic Pulse Quickens -- 9. The Diplomacy of Frustration -- 10. Threat and Counter-Threat: The 1850s -- 11. Foreigners and the Modernization of Paraguay -- 12. "Francisco Solano's Error: The War" -- 13. The Immolation of Paraguay -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Paraguay plays a very small role in the modern world, but for part of the nineteenth century it was a significant regional force. Between 1800 and 1865 it changed from an imperial backwater into a dynamic, dictator-led, financially sound nation. Then came the terrible War of the Triple Alliance, and by 1870 Paraguay had virtually been destroyed. John Hoyt Williams re-creates the era’s people, places, and events in rich detail and a vigorous style, but this is much more than a mere narrative. His archival research in Paraguay and several other countries enables him to offer new facts and interpretations, correct a number of misapprehensions, and explode a few myths. He also provides the clearest, most objective portraits available of the three extraordinary men who ruled Paraguay during this time: Dr. José Gaspar de Francia, “El Supremo”; Carlos Antonio López, “the Corpulent Despot”; and López’s flamboyant son Francisco Solano López. Discussions of social, economic, and cultural conditions round out a masterly account of a remarkable historical period.

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