...Erick D. Langer Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco . By GASTÓN R. GORDILLO. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. xvii, 304 pp. $23.95. Paper. © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 General...

...Neil L. Whitehead Etno-Historias del Isoso: Chané y chiriguanos en el Chaco boliviano (siglos XVI a XX). By isabelle combès. La Paz: Programa de Investigación Estratégica en Bolivia/Lima: Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, 2005. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures...

...Elizabeth Shesko Abstract The Chaco War with Paraguay represented the largest undertaking by the Bolivian state up to that point and proved to be a definitive turning point in the country's social and political history. This article exposes how little we know about the conflict and examines anew...

...Jason B. Kauffman The Chaco War: Environment, Ethnicity, and Nationalism . Edited by Chesterton Bridget María . New York : Bloomsbury , 2016 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 219 pp. Cloth , $83.99 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Cynthia Radding The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycurúan Experience. By james schofield saeger. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. Illustrations. Map. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 266 pp. Cloth, $50.00. 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Book Reviews...

...James Schofield Saeger Peoples of the Gran Chaco. Edited by elmer s. miller. Native Peoples of the Americas. Westport, Conn: Bergin & Garvey, 1999. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. xii, 166 pp. Cloth,$65.00. 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 HAHR 80.3_08 BookReview(569...

...Bridget María Chesterton; Anatoly V. Isaenko Abstract This article considers how Juan Belaieff's experiences in the Caucasus of Russia during the early twentieth century shaped his later work with the Paraguayan military in the Chaco region. His Russian training in both military science and...

... indigenous, in this view, was projected outside the central areas controlled by the nation-state, beyond the frontiers of the Pampas, Patagonia, and the Chaco. Historical writing accepted and contributed to the formation of this image by characterizing the political mobilization of gauchos or peasants...

... desire to defend Paraguayan territory and to honor the nation led rural agriculturalists to fight in the Chaco War (1932–1935) and that, due to this shared experience, the rural classes transformed the memory of Francisco Solano López from the liberal elite's interpretation of a selfish tyrant who led...

... left in the Argentine Chaco, including overgrown Spanish forts and missions, out-of-use railroad tracks, bulldozed forests, scattered mass graves, the detritus of nineteenth-century steamships, and images of venerated saints. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's ideas on modernity as a destructive process...

... hinterlands. Within Paraguay, the trauma unleashed a national conversation on “the Paraguayan character” (p. 172). Paraguayan politics in the twentieth century, the focus of the next three chapters, revolved around the tension between democracy and military authoritarianism. “From the Chaco War to the...

... (1932–1935), fought over the contested Chaco Boreal region in the southeast, was “one of the world's first oil wars” (p. 70). Though the disputed territory itself was not known to contain oil deposits, the Bolivian government was set on acquiring an oil export outlet via the Paraguay River. The rumor...

... shattered by the loss of territory against Paraguay in the Chaco War (1932–1935), military presidents David Toro and Germán Busch looked to strengthen the state's presence in the lowlands. As part of these efforts, Busch created a military delegation in Guarayos to replace the missionaries' administration...

... the usual stereotypes. Latin American diplomats who reached into the world through international organizations had global impact during the Chaco War and through the International Labour Organization (ILO), to give just two examples. Particularly rich is the section of the book discussing how...

... proceso misional de los jesuitas en las reducciones del Gran Chaco. Guillermo Wilde, por su parte, aborda las interacciones culturales e históricas que desdibujan los límites entre apropiación e indianización entre los indios y los misioneros del Paraguay, señalando acertadamente la paradoja que...

... including anarchist and socialist parties, students, and workers. The Chaco War entered popular culture as a “war for oil,” in which the Bolivian oligarchy and international capitalism (represented by Standard Oil) betrayed national interests and acted as enemies of the Bolivian people (p. 21). Veterans...

..., placing each into context and extensively detailing their musical influences. Black jazz guitarist Oscar Alemán was born in Chaco in 1909, and his journey led him to Paris and back to Buenos Aires. Lalo Schifrin and Gato Barbieri both enjoyed success in the United States, and the diverse paths that they...

... since 1917.” 11 The most important galvanizing force for resource nationalism prior to the revolution was the Chaco War with Paraguay (1932–1935), in which at least 50,000 Bolivian soldiers—2 percent of the population—died. 12 The disastrous outcome of the war proved to be a powerful stimulus...