List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction I The Birth of Paraguay The Foundation of Human Speech, Leon Cadogan; Contact, Servitude, and Resistance, Branislava Susnik; Spanish-Guarani Relations in Early Colonial Paraguay, Elman R. Service; The Land-without-Evil, Helene Clastres; The Republic of Plato and the Guarani, Jose Manuel Peramas; A Vanished Arcadia, R. B. Cunninghame Graham; The Revolt of the Comuneros, Adalberto Lopez II The Nationalist Experiment A Report on Paraguay in the London Press of 1824, Anonymous; A Nation Held Hostage, Justo Prieto; In Defense of Doctor Francia, Richard Alan White; Autonomy, Authoritarianism, and Development, Thomas Whigham; The Treaty of the Triple Alliance; "I Die with My Country!," Thomas Whigham; A Chronicle of War, Leandro Pineda; The Lomas Valentinas Note, Francisco Solano Lopez; Memoirs of the Paraguayan War, Gaspar Centurion; The Women of Piribebuy, Juan O'Leary; The Death of Lopez at Cerro Cora, Silvestre Aveiro; Sufferings of a French Lady in Paraguay, Dorotea Duprat de Lasserre; Declaration and Protest, Eliza Lynch; The Psychology of Lopez, William Stewart III A Slow Recovery Paraguayan Society in the Postwar Decade, Harris Gaylord Warren; The "Lincolnshire Farmers" in Paraguay, Annie Elizabeth Kennett; My Pilgrimage to Caacupe, Norman O. Brown; What It's Like to Work in the Yerba Plantations, Rafael Barrett; The Treatment of Tree Fellers and Timber Workers, Reinaldo Lopez Fretes; The Golden Age (Without a Nickel), Helio Vera; The Causes of Poverty in Paraguay, Teodosio Gonzalez; The Mennonites Arrive in the Chaco, Walter Quiring; The Paraguayan Character, Juan Sinforiano Bogarin; The Paraguayan People and Their Natural Tendencies, Natalicio Gonzalez; Cultural Exile, Agustin Barrios; Profession of Faith, Agustin Barrios; A New National Ideology, Oscar Creydt, Obdulio Barthe, Anibal Codas, and others IV From the Chaco War to the Civil War Capturing Volunteers, Carlos Federico Reyes; The Battle of Boqueron, Alfredo Seiferheld; Memoirs of a Man from Concepcion, Carlos Maria Sienra Bonzi, as told to Roberto Sienra Zavala; A Visit to Villa Hayes Military Hospital Number 16, Reginald Thompson; Scenes of Thirst, Hugo Rodriguez Alcala; A Handful of Earth, Herib Campos Cervera; Proclamation of the Febrerista Revolution, F. W. Smith and Camilo Recalde; How Beautiful Your Voice, Ernesto Unruh and Hannes Kalisch; The Revolution of 1947, Carlos Maria Sienra Bonzi, as told to Roberto Sienra Zavala; A Half Hour in My Childhood, Eva Bichsel V Dictatorship and Resistance Toward a Weberian Characterization of the Stroessner Regime, Marcial Riquelme; The Revolutionary Spirit of the Colorado Party, Luis Maria Argana; The Tragedy of Fram, Jorge Rubiani; Be Careful, Dictator, Elvio Romero; The Worm in the Lotus Blossom, Graham Greene; A Short History of the Northern Ache People, Kim Hill; The Testimony of Saturnina Almada; An Interview with Corsino Coronel; Apocalypse, Alfredo Boccia; My Farewell Speech, Carmen de Lara Castro; The Death of Somoza, Claribel Alegria and Darwin Flakoll; My Vote Is for the People, Alcibiades Gonzalez Delvalle; Writing as a Metaphor for Exile, Augusto Roa Bastos; Paraguay's Terror Archive, Andrew Nickson; "A Hundred and Eight" and a Burned Body, Anselmo Ramos; The Final Report of the Truth and Justice Commission, Andres D. Ramirez; Alfredo Stroessner: Revisiting the General, Isabel Hilton VI A Transition in Search of Democracy We Have Left Our Barracks, Andres Rodriguez; Reestablishing the Status Quo, Andrew Nickson; My Deepest Respects to the Colorado Party, Helio Vera; The Characteristics of Oviedismo, Milda Rivarola; In Homage to the Victims of Ycua Bolanos, Luis Irala; Where Are They? Alberto Rodas; The Ayoreo People, Mateo Sobode Chiquenoi; So Much Exoticism Can Be Deceptive, Alfredo Boccia Paz; Inaugural Presidential Speech, Fernando Lugo Mendez; First Person: Margarita Mbywangi, Margarita Mbywangi, as told to Jude Webber; Lessons on Paternity from Lugo, Clyde Soto; Itaipu: A Historic Achievement That Will Need to Be Closely Monitored, Ricardo Canese; A Fine Woman, Andres Colman Gutierrez; Ciudad del Este's Deadly Trade Route, Jude Webber; The Challenge of Conserving a Natural Chaco Habitat in the Face of Severe Deforestation Pressure and Human Development Needs, Alberto Yanosky VII What Does It Mean to Be Paraguayan? History, Identity, and Paraguayidad, Peter Lambert; Change and Continuity in Paraguayan History - 1811, 1911, 2011, Andrew Nickson; The Arcadian Tragedy, George Pendle; The Bicentenary of Paraguayan Independence and the Guarani Language, Miguel Angel Veron Gomez; People of African Descent in Paraguay, Ignacio Telesca; Authoritarian Ideology: Final Comments, Guido Rodriguez Alcala; With the Help of Dona Petrona We Make an Incursion into Folk Cuisine, Helio Vera; Enough of the Triple Alliance! Jorge Rubiani; Terere as a Social Bond, Derlis Benitez Alvarenga; The Status of Women, Riordan Roett and Richard Scott Sacks; Self-Portrait, Bernarda; Maria and the Serpent, Pepa Kostianovsky; Erico, Jorge Barraza; Recipe for Chipa Guazu, Dona Aida; The National Anthem in Guarani, Felix de Guarania Suggestions for Further Reading; Acknowledgment of Copyright and Sources; Index
