...Charles J. Kolinski Los restos mortales del Doctor José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia . Asunción , 1962 . Imprenta Nacional . Ministerio del Interior . Pp. 77 . Paper . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Among the controversies over issues in Latin American history...

...Harold F. Peterson El dictador del Paraguay: Dr. Francia . By Cabanellas Guillermo . [ Biblioteca de grandes biografías, Serie B, Vol. 12 .] ( Buenos Aires : Editorial Claridad , 1946 . Pp. 397 . Illustrations, facsimiles. Pasteboard . $5.00 m/arg.) Copyright 1948 by Duke...

...Roscoe R. Hill Correspondencia del consul de Francia en Santo Domingo . Vol. II . Edited by Demorizi Emilio Rodríguez . [ Archivo General de la Nación, Vol. IX .] ( Ciudad Trujillo : Editora Montalvo , 1947 . Pp. 330 . Paper.) Copyright 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 ...

...William Pratt Dale, II Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 Francia y Bonpland . By Pérez Acosta Juan F. . [ Publicaciones del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Número LXXIX .] ( Buenos Aires , Talleres S. A. Casa Jacobo Peuser, Ltda ., 1942 . Pp. 58 , xv .) ...

...Harold F. Peterson El supremo dictador: Biografía de José Gaspar de Francia . By Chaves Julio César . ( Buenos Aires : Editorial Difusam , 1942 . Pp. 402 , 8 plates . Paper, $6 m/arg.) Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 ...

...Robert Louis Gilmore Anales diplomáticos de Venezuela, establecimiento de relaciones (Gran Bretaña, Francia y España) , Tomo I . Published by Venezuela, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores , introduction by Núñez Enrique Bernardo . ( Caracas : Editorial Ávila Gráfica , 1952 . Pp...

...William Spence Robertson La Francia y la Monarquía en el Plata (1818-1820) . By Belgrano Mario . ( Buenos Aires : Librería de A. García Santos , 1933 . Pp. 230 .) Rivadavia y sus Gestiones diplomáticas con España (1815-1820) . By Belgrano Mario . ( Buenos Aires...

...Harris Gaylord Warren El dictador del Paraguay José Gaspar de Francia . 2nd edition. By Wisner Francisco . Prologue and notes by Chaves Julio César . Buenos Aires , 1957 . Editorial Ayacucho . Frontispiece . Pp. 170 . Paper . Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press...

...Pablo Max Ynsfran La política del Brasil en el Paraguay bajo la dictadura del Dr. Francia . By Ramos R. Antonio . Buenos Aires-Asunción , 1959 . Ediciones Nizza . Bibliography . Pp. 232 . Paper. Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 ...

...Harris Gaylord Warren Artigas, Francia y el Paraguay, el ostracismo del prócer oriental en tierra Paraguaya y orígenes del derecho de asilo en América . By Stefanich Juan . [ Conferencia pronunciada en el Instituto Histórico y Geográfico del Uruguay .] ( Montevideo : Tipografía...

... treaty void. It next announced that it would not send deputies to the coming congress of the Platine provinces. In the late afternoon of October 1, the congress created the independent Republic of Paraguay. To rule the new nation, two consuls were chosen, Dr. Francia and Colonel Fulgencio Yegros, whose...

...Jerry W. Cooney El doctor Francia visto y oído por sus contemporáneos . By Vázquez José Antonio . Buenos Aires , 1975 . Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires . Illustrations. Tables. Index . Pp. xii , 420 . Paper. Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press 1978...

... Rodríguez de Francia, Carlos Antonio and Francisco Solano López, and the Paraguayan War. In agreement with recent works by Richard Alan White and John Hoyt Williams, the author labels the Paraguay of Francia and the two López the “Socialist State.” The seven decades from 1870 to 1940 are covered...

... bastions of popular mobilization, the communities of La Legua and Villa Francia. The book moves chronologically through the history of these two neighborhoods by first reconstructing their early social and political formation. While La Legua emerged out of land occupations led by Chile's Communist Party...

... seriously, for it is (in its eight chapters) so wildly uneven and ideologically rigid. The various authors deal with characteristics of the Rosas, Dr. Francia, García Moreno, Porfirio Díaz, Juan Vicente Gómez, and Vargas regimes, with two general chapters which fail to bond the individual dictatorships...

... that there be no contradiction: Tevegó, Dr. Francia’s mulatto farm colony cum penal farm is located on page 102 at Fuerte Olympo, and on page 241 across from Concepción, some hundreds of kilometers to the south. Both sites are on the wrong side of the Paraguay River, and in error by a substantial distance. Despite...

... as primary sources, Williams falls into the same errors as his predecessors. He reports many of the same tired myths that have been propagated by traditional historians and by enemies of Paraguay’s popular regimes. One example is the description of Dr. José Gaspar de Francia (1814–40) by “a European visitor...

.... Most of all, Dr. Kahle would give credit to the force and conscious policy of Dr. Francia, with the first years of whose administration the book really ends. “Nicht die Nation errichtete den Staat, sondern der paraguayische Staat, verkörpert durch Francia und sein beiden Nachfolger, formte die...

..., the latifundia system was firmly established with 112 encomenderos monopolizing the best lands. Under José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, the State became owner of all of the Chaco and more than one-half of eastern Paraguay. Francia’s successors continued to build what Pastore calls the mercantilist state...

... and economy, avoidance of a dependent economy, egalitarian land reform, and rational state direction of the economy. However, in reaction to the old “liberal” condemnation of Dr. Francia’s Paraguay, the author has fallen prey to an overly laudatory view of Paraguay’s first dictator, a questionable advocacy...