Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.