The Chaco War
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-04567-5 (ISBN)
Beginning with an overview of the war, the book goes on to explore many new approaches to the conflict, and the contributors address topics such as the environmental challenges faced by the forces involved, the role of indigenous peoples, the impact of oil nationalism and the conflict’s aftermath. This is a volume that will be of interest to anyone working on modern Latin America and the relationship between war and society.
Bridget María Chesterton is Associate Professor of History at Buffalo State, USA. She is the author of The Grandchildren of Solano López: Frontier and Nation in Paraguay, 1904-1936 (2013) and co-editor of Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas (2015).
1. Introduction: An Overview of the Chaco War - Bridget María Chesterton (Buffalo State, USA)
2. An Organic Army in the Chaco War - Carlos Gómez Florentín (Stony Brook University, USA)
3. Indigenous Peoples and the Chaco War: Power and Acquiescence in Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina - Erick D. Langer (Georgetown University, USA)
4. Challenging Modernity: Patriotic Engineering and the Chaco War - Ben Nobbs-Thiessen (Emory University, USA)
5. Bolivian Oil Nationalism and the Chaco War - Stephen Cote (Ohio University, USA)
6. Union Activism in La Paz before and after the Chaco War, 1920-1947- Luis M. Sierra (Wilmington College, USA)
7. “Same as Here, Same as Everywhere:” Social Difference among Bolivian Prisoners in Paraguay.” - Elizabeth Shesko (Oakland University, USA)
8. Big Paraguay, Carlos Fiebrig, and the Botanical Garden as a Launching Point for Paraguayan Nationalism - Bridget María Chesterton and Thilo F. Papacek (Buffalo State, USA and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
9. Engraving Conflict: The Chaco War in a Shell Case - Esther Breithoff (University of Bristol, UK)
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Erscheinungsdatum | 09.02.2017 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 331 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-04567-5 / 1350045675 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-04567-5 / 9781350045675 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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