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Books on: "Paraguayan War" OR ("triple alliance" AND "paraguay")

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To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Book by Chris Leuchars; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

Paraguayan War, 1865-1870

Collections: History, Entire Library

...alk. paper) 1. Paraguayan War, 1865-1870. I. Title...Triple Alliance, or the Paraguayan War, as it is more popularly...both then occupied by Paraguayan troops and both ostensibly...the cause of the Triple Alliance. Perhaps this is because...
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The Paraguayan War - Vol. 1

Book by Thomas L. Whigham; University of Nebraska Press, 2002

Subjects:

Paraguayan War, 1865-1870

Collections: History, Entire Library

...leaving devastation in its wake. The Paraguayan War, in all these ways, was no different...countries that participated in the Paraguayan War of- fered its own solution to...fourth country involved in the Paraguayan War. The Banda Oriental, as it was...
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Paraguay: The Personalist Legacy

Book by Riordan Roett, Richard Scott Sacks; Westview Press, 1991

Subjects:

Paraguay--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Harris Gaylord Warren, Paraguay and the Triple Alliance: The Postwar Decade, 1869-1878...on by the 1870 defeat in the Triple Alliance War continued under Liberal rule. Before long, Liberal Paraguay descended into factional feuding...expert on conflicting Bolivian and Paraguayan claims to the Chaco, and historical...1882 , who wrote about the Triple Alliance War , fiercely defending the reputation...
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A History of Organized Labor in Uruguay and Paraguay

Book by Robert J. Alexander; Praeger, 2005

Subjects:

Labor Unions--Paraguay--History, Labor Unions--Uruguay--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...significance in the economy, society, and politics of the republic during most of the twentieth century. In contrast, Paraguay, after emerging from the total disaster it suffered in the so-called War of the Triple Alliance, which it waged against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay between 1865-1870, was a country in more or less constant...
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The Chaco War: Bolivia and Paraguay, 1932-1935

Book by Bruce W. Farcau; Greenwood Press, 1996

Subjects:

Chaco War, 1932-1935

Collections: History, Entire Library

Nearly 100,000 men died during the course of the tragic three-year war between two of the world's poorest nations, Bolivia and Paraguay, in the 1930s. The Chaco War was fought over a worthless stretch of desert scrubland for the pride of political leaders and the ambition of a few military officers ...
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Nearly 100,000 men died during the course of the tragic three-year war between two of the world's poorest nations, Bolivia and Paraguay, in the 1930s. The Chaco War was fought over a worthless stretch of desert scrubland for the pride of political leaders and the ambition of a few military officers. While thousands of illiterate, barefoot, undernourished peasant soldiers fought and died with incredible bravery, their commanders and national leaders fussed and fumed over imagined slights and avoided the peace which was so easily within their reach. The Bolivian military, in particular, performed abysmally. Few wars have been as unnecessary or as costly as the Chaco War.
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Journal Articles on: "Paraguayan War" OR ("triple alliance" AND "paraguay")

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The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct, Vol. 1

Journal article by David Rock; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conflict, vol. 1 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Rock Causes and Early Conflict. Volume I of The Paraguayan War. By Thomas L. Whigham. (Lincoln and London: University...indigenous language of Paraguay. This account of the Paraguayan War is the longest and fullest ever written, destined...
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The Paraguayan War. Volume I. Causes and Early Conflict

Journal article by David Rock; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conflict, vol. 1 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Paraguayan War. Volume I. Causes and Early Conflict. by David Rock The Paraguayan War. Volume I. Causes and Early Conflict...2002. Pp. xvii, 520. $75.00.) The Paraguayan or Triple Appliance War of 1865-1870...
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Flights from Modernity: German and Australian Utopian Colonies in Paraguay 1886-1896

Journal article by John F. Williams, Daniela Kraus, Harry Knowles; Journal of Australian Studies, 2001

Subjects:

Australia--History, Communism--Models, Forster, Bernhard--Political activity, Germany--History, Imperialism--Paraguay, Lane, William--Political activity, National socialism--Models, Paraguay--History, Racism--History, Utopias--Models

Collections: Entire Library

...recently concluded Guar de la triple aliens (war of the triple alliance 1864-70) must rate as one of the bloodiest in history...about 28,000 were men. Thus, in seven years of fighting, Paraguay lost fifty-eight percent of its total population. Paraguay...they settled 140 farming families within two years. For Paraguay this was a means of stimulating migration after the disastrous triple alliance war. Forster was obliged to give a guarantee to the...
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Latin America: The Resurgence of the Left

Journal article by James Petras; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1997

Subjects:

Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism

Collections: Entire Library

...Paraguays nineteenth-century nationalist experience. Successful state-directed industrialization had been pioneered in Paraguay and was only destroyed through external intervention during the war of the Triple Alliance. The historical memory remains because of the valour of the fighters, and the success of the experiment as long as...
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Comment on "Economic Integration: NAFTA and Mercosur"

Journal article by Thomas J. Ward; International Journal on World Peace, Vol. 16, 1999

Subjects:

International economic integration--Analysis, Mercosur--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...Brazil, as illustrated in the nineteenth century War of the Triple Alliance, which did far more than decimate the Paraguayan male population. The reduction of the perceived threat...the GDP of MERCOSUR countries. Lecuona mentions that Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil are members of MERCOSUR...

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Magazine Articles on: "Paraguayan War" OR ("triple alliance" AND "paraguay")

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Latin Americas Total War: Peter H. Wilson Revisits the War of the Triple Alliance, Latin America's Bloodiest Conflict

Magazine article by Peter H. Wilson; History Today, Vol. 54, May 2004

Subjects:

Latin American history--Chronologies, Latin American history--Military aspects, Latin American history--Political aspects, Lopez, Francisco Solano--Behavior, Lopez, Francisco Solano--Military policy, Lopez, Francisco Solano--Political activity, Lynch, Elisa--Behavior, Military campaigns--Chronologies, Military campaigns--History, Presidents (Government)--Behavior, Presidents (Government)--Chronologies, Presidents (Government)--Military policy, Presidents (Government)--Political activity, Presidents--Behavior, Presidents--Chronologies, Presidents--Military policy, Presidents--Political activity

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the appalling waste of this war. FOR FURTHER READING Charles J. Kolinsky, Independence or death! The story of the Paraguayan War (University of Florida, 1965); Chris Leuchars, To the bitter end: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance (Greenwood...
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Guarani from Tongue to Tome: Although This Native Language Has Long Been Spoken throughout Paraguay, Its Literary Boom Is Relatively Recent, Thanks to a Growing Number of Dedicated Writers

Magazine article by Mike Ceaser; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 54, July 2002

Subjects:

Guaranis (South American native people)--Languages, Language and languages--Revival, Literature--Paraguay, Paraguay--Languages

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...seven hundred pages--about the 1864 to 1870 War of the Triple Alliance, in which Paraguay struggled for its existence against Brazil, Argentina...thing," he observes. The Guarani tongues role in Paraguayan history is a story in itself. During the War of the Triple Alliance and the fratricidal 1930s Chaco War with Bolivia, the...
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Historian with a Brush

Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 42, November 1990

Subjects:

Bach, Caleb--Works, Painting, Argentine--19th century, Paraguayan War, 1865-1870--Illustrations, photographs, etc., War in art--19th century

Collections: Entire Library

...Triple Alliance (or Paraguayan War) was already over...supposed to engage the Paraguayans who had crossed into...The War of the Triple Alliance was not a continuous...local interest in the Paraguayan War subsided, so too...
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Naval Technology from Dixie

Magazine article by Darryl E. Brock; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 46, July 1994

Subjects:

Brazil--History, Naval art and science--History, Paraguayan War, 1865-1870--Analysis, Tomb, James Hamilton--Political activity

Collections: Entire Library

...challenge the British-installed Paraguayan war arsenal and well-honed...A disaster for the Paraguayan people, the War of the Triple Alliance was eclipsed in scope only...arbiter, he awarded these to Paraguay. It is a curious twist...problem in the War of the Triple Alliance, two Yankee brothers, James...
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Magical Realism

Magazine article by Joseph A. Page; Commonweal, Vol. 131, November 19, 2004

Subjects:

A Death in Brazil : A Book of Omissions (Book)--Book reviews, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig : Travels through Paraguay (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...surviving members. More important, he takes the reader on a tour of the battlegrounds of the two major clashes that define Paraguayan history. In the War of the Triple Alliance (1871-75), the brutal dictator Francisco Solano Lopez managed to enmesh his country in an armed struggle against the...

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Newspaper Articles on: "Paraguayan War" OR ("triple alliance" AND "paraguay")

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Football: 20 Interesting Facts about Paraguay; WORLD CUP 2006: THE BIG KICK-OFF..

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 10, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Spaniards. 8 During the War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870), Paraguay lost 54,000 square miles of territory...of the male population was killed. 9 Paraguays history is littered with skirmishes...ranges from subtropical to temperate. 12 Paraguay has a market economy as almost half...
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Argentina's Outlaw 'Saint'; Believers Crowd Rural Sanctuary

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 16, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Corrientes became more violent still in 1864 when the War of the Triple Alliance, which pitted Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay against neighboring Paraguay turned it into a frontline province. Even after the war...believers pray to him daily, and pilgrims from as far away as Paraguay, Brazil and Chile regularly visit the place of his execution...

Encyclopedia Articles on: "Paraguayan War" OR ("triple alliance" AND "paraguay")

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Triple Alliance, War of The

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

TRIPLE ALLIANCE, WAR OF THE 1865 70, fought between Paraguay on one side and an alliance of Argentina...Brazil from Francisco Solano Lopez , Paraguayan dictator, who favored the Blanco regime...after Bartolome Mitre refused to allow Paraguayan troops to cross Argentine territory...
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Paraguay , Country, South America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...See T. E. Weil et al., Area Handbook for Paraguay (1972); C. J. Kolinski, Independence or Death: The Story of the Paraguayan War (1965) and Historical Dictionary of Paraguay (1973); C. A. Washburn, The History of Paraguay (1871, repr. 1973...
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LÓpez, Francisco Solano

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...megalomaniac who considered himself the Napoleon of South America, Lopez fanatically sought to increase the prestige of Paraguay and waged (1865) a disastrous war with Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay (see Triple Alliance, War of the ). He was defeated and killed (1870) after retreating with the remnants of his army. Lopez demanded blind...
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Argentina

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...de San Martin . Uruguay and Paraguay went their own ways despite hopes...reforms instituted. The War of the Triple Alliance (see Triple Alliance, War of the ), 1865 70, brought little...Justicialismo (Peronism). Peron fled to Paraguay and in 1960 went into exile in Spain...unemployment. Argentinas relations with Paraguay soured in 1999 when Menems government...
5.

AsunciÓn

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Paraguay, capital of Paraguay, on the Paraguay River. It is the principal port and chief industrial and cultural center of Paraguay. Manufactures include footwear, textiles, and tobacco products. From the east bank of the river, the city spreads out...was ended by the growth of Buenos Aires, which was separated from Asuncions jurisdiction in 1617. After the War of the Triple Alliance (1865 70), Asuncion was occupied by Brazilian troops until 1876. The National Univ. and several colleges are in the...

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