Introducing the Chaco frontier -- Forgetting Solano Lopez : 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 Guarani : soldiers, agriculturalists, and poets -- Remembering Solano Lopez : the rise of febrerismo -- Reconsidering the frontier : the decades following the war.
Summary
"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.
