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The Epic of the Chaco
Author | : Jose Felix Estigarribia |
Publsiher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2019-01-13 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781789123814 |
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Originally published in 1950, The Epic of the Chaco is the fascinating memoir of the 34th President of Paraguay, Jose Felix Estigarribia, written between 1938-1939 in Washington, D.C., “whilst discharging his duties as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary Paraguay.” The book’s editor, Pablo Max Ynsfrán, acted as counsellor of the Paraguayan legation during the same period and collaborated in drafting Estigarribia’s recollections as they are set down in the present volume. “The importance of this publication for the military historian of the Chaco War (1932-1935), in which Paraguay and Bolivia were involved, can hardly be overrated. Marshal Estigarribia held in that armed conflict—one of the most sanguinary ever fought by two South-American republics—the unique position of being the top planner (perhaps the only one) and the commander in chief of the Paraguayan army in the field during the entire course of the campaign. The remarkable success of his leadership is a well-known fact. He emerged from the Chaco War as one of the outstanding masters of strategy in South-American history.”—Editor’s Preface
The Epic of the Chaco
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Author | : José Felix Estigarribia,University of Texas. Institute of Latin-American Studies |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:64991186 |
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The Epic of the Chaco
Author | : José Félix Estigarribia |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2011-10 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1258154048 |
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University Of Texas Institute Of Latin-American Studies, V8.
The Epic of the Chaco
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Author | : Jose Felix Estigarribia |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1025761643 |
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Wild New World The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
Author | : Dan Flores |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2022-10-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781324006176 |
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One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America. In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America’s known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent’s evolutionary richness. Distinguished author Dan Flores’s ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the “wild new world” of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before. The arrival of humans precipitated an extraordinary disruption of this teeming environment. Flores treats humans not as a species apart but as a new animal entering two continents that had never seen our likes before. He shows how our long past as carnivorous hunters helped us settle America, initially establishing a coast-to-coast culture that lasted longer than the present United States. But humanity’s success had devastating consequences for other creatures. In telling this epic story, Flores traces the origins of today’s “Sixth Extinction” to the spread of humans around the world; tracks the story of a hundred centuries of Native America; explains how Old World ideologies precipitated 400 years of market-driven slaughter that devastated so many ancient American species; and explores the decline and miraculous recovery of species in recent decades. In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America’s animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Eons in scope and continental in scale, Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animal-human story in America.
The Epic of Latin America
Author | : John A. Crow |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520037766 |
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Uniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, this book has been revised and brought up to date, with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s.
The Epic of the Chaco
Author | : University of Texas. Institute of Latin American Studies |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Chaco War, 1932-1935 |
ISBN | : UTEXAS:059173018375008 |
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Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree
Author | : Erick D. Langer |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2009-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822390916 |
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Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were key to the penetration of national societies into the regions and indigenous lands that the nascent republics claimed as their jurisdictions. In Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree, Erick D. Langer examines one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America, the Franciscan missions among the Chiriguano Indians in southeastern Bolivia. Using that mission system as a model for understanding the relationship between indigenous peoples and missionaries in the post-independence period, Langer explains how the missions changed over their lifespan and how power shifted between indigenous leaders and the missionaries in an ongoing process of negotiation. Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree is based on twenty years of research, including visits to the sites of nearly every mission discussed and interviews with descendants of mission Indians, Indian chiefs, Franciscan friars, mestizo settlers, and teachers. Langer chronicles how, beginning in the 1840s, the establishment of missions fundamentally changed the relationship between the Chiriguano villages and national society. He looks at the Franciscan missionaries’ motives, their visions of ideal missions, and the realities they faced. He also examines mission life from the Chiriguano point of view, considering their reasons for joining missions and their resistance to conversion, as well as the interrelated issues of Indian acculturation and the development of the mission economy, particularly in light of the relatively high rates of Indian mortality and outmigration. Expanding his focus, Langer delves into the complex interplay of Indians, missionaries, frontier society, and the national government until the last remaining missions were secularized in 1949. He concludes with a comparative analysis between colonial and republican-era missions throughout Latin America.