Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. The "Provincia Gigante" in the Eighteenth Century 1
5. 2. José Gaspar de Francia and the Paraguayan Revolution 19
6. 3. Perpetual Means Forever: Francia and the Paraguayan Society 43
7. 4. The Diplomacy of Isolation, 1820-1840 63
8. 5. The Supreme Dictatorship, 1820-1840 81
9. 6. The Old Order Changeth? 101
10. 7. A New Paraguay Is Stirring 113
11. 8. The Economic Pulse Quickens 129
12. 9. The Diplomacy of Frustration 139
13. 10. Threat and Counter-Threat: The 1850s 157
14. 11. Foreigners and the Modernization of Paraguay 177
15. 12. "Francisco Solano's Error: The War" 195
16. 13. The Immolation of Paraguay 211
17. Notes 229
18. Bibliography 263
19. Index 273