The Chaco War : environment, ethnicity, and nationalism /

"In 1932 Bolivia and Paraguay went to war over the Chaco region in South America. The war lasted three years and approximately 52,000 Bolivians and Paraguayans died. Moving beyond the battlefields of the Chaco War, this volume highlights the forgotten narratives of the war. Studying the environ...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chesterton, Bridget María, 1973- (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Subjects:
1932-1935
Chaco War, 1932-1935.
Guerre du Chaco, 1932-1935.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.
History of the Americas.
History.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: an overview of the Chaco War / Bridget María Chesterton
  • Same as here, same as everywhere: social difference among Bolivian prisoners in Paraguay / Elizabeth Shesko
  • Union activism in La Paz before and after the Chaco War, 1920-1947 / Luis M. Sierra
  • Channeling modernity: nature, patriotic engineering, and the Chaco War / Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
  • Paraguay Guazú: big Paraguay, Carlos Fiebrig, and the Botanical Garden as a launching point / Bridget María Chesterton and Thilo F. Papacek
  • Indigenous peoples and the Chaco War: power and acquiescence in Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina / Erick D. Langer
  • Energy and environment in the Chaco War / Carlos Gomez Florentin
  • Bolivian oil nationalism and the Chaco War / Stephen Cote
  • Engraving conflict: the Chaco War in a shell case / Esther Breithoff.

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