"In 1864 Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López seized the Brazilian steamer, the Marquês de Olinda, initiating what became the most significant war ever fought in South America. By 1866 López's offensive had ended, replaced by a brutal and protracted Allied siege of Paragua…
In 1864 the capture of Brazilian steamer the Marquês de Olinda initiated South America's most significant war. Thousands of Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan soldiers engaged in a protracted siege of Paraguay, leaving the Paraguayan economy and population devastated. The suffe…
"This ethnographic study is a revisionist view of the most significant and widely known mission system in Latin America, that of the Jesuit missions to the Guarani Indians, who inhabited the border region of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It traces in detail the process of the…
"This ethnographic study is a revisionist view of the most significant and widely known mission system in Latin America, that of the Jesuit missions to the Guarani Indians, who inhabited the border region of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It traces in detail the process of the…
