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Paraguayan History: Manuscript Sources in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Thomas Lyle Whigham  and
Jerry W. Cooney
Thomas Lyle Whigham
Affiliation:
Stanford University
Jerry W. Cooney
Affiliation:
University of Louisville
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Interest in Paraguay has increased greatly in the United States over the last twenty years. For a long time, the only serious North American specialist in the history of that ignored nation was Harris Gaylord Warren. In recent years, however, the dean of North American Paraguayanists has been joined by an enthusiastic group of historians who have focused on such topics as the Comunero Revolt, the Intendencia and Independence eras, the Francia and López periods, the War of the Triple Alliance, and the Chaco War. At the same time, this group of scholars has moved away from the traditional political, military, and diplomatic considerations of Paraguayan history into such realms as social and economic development, and demography. Although the number of Paraguayanists in this country remains small, significant progress has been made.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , 1983 , pp. 104 - 117
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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The authors wish to thank for their aid in the compilation of this research article Harris Gaylord Warren, Charles Stansifer, David Null, Jane Garner, Barbara Robinson, Ann Hyde, and Dan Smith. Needless to say, any error or omission of a significant collection is the sole responsibility of the authors.

References

Notes

1. Adalberto López, The Revolt of the Comuneros, 1721–1735: A Study in the Colonial History of Paraguay (Cambridge, Mass., 1976); Richard Alan White, Paraguay's Autonomous Revolution, 1810–1840 (Albuquerque, 1978); John Holt Williams, The Rise and Fall of the Paraguayan Republic, 1800–1870 (Austin, 1979); Charles J. Kolinski, Independence or Death! The Story of the Paraguayan War (Gainesville, 1965); Harris Gaylord Warren, Paraguay and the Triple Alliance: The Postwar Decade, 1869–1878 (Austin, 1978); David H. Zook, Conduct of the Chaco War (New York, 1961); and Leslie B. Rout, Politics of the Chaco Peace Conference, 1935–1939 (Austin, 1970). In addition, Paul Lewis, although a political scientist rather than a historian, has published two significant works on the political history of Paraguay in this century: The Politics of Exile: Paraguay's Febrerista Party (Chapel Hill, 1965), and Paraguay under Stroessner (Chapel Hill, 1980).

2. The best general guide to sources on Paraguayan history is the series of Inter-American Notes by John Hoyt Williams, “Paraguayan Historical Resources,” The Americas 34, 1–4 (1977-78):113-23, 274–84, 407–18, and 537–52, respectively. Also see John Hoyt Williams, “The Archivo Nacional de Asunción,” LARR 6:1 (Spring 1971):101–18.

3. Raúl Amaral, Manuel Gondra, el humanista (Asunción, 1957); and the excellent short sketch of Gondra by Carlos E. Casteñeda, “Manuel E. Gondra, Statesman and Scholar,” in the Calendar of the Manuel E. Gondra Manuscript Collection. The University of Texas Library, by Carlos Eduardo Casteñeda and Jack Autry Dabbs (Mexico, 1952), pp. 15–22.

4. Pastora Montoro de López Roman, et al., Research Guide to the Godoi-Díaz-Pérez Collection in the Library of the University of California Riverside (Riverside, Latin American Studies Program Research Guide no. 1, 1973).

5. Silvano Mosqueira, Juan Silvano Godoi, su vida y su obra (Asunción, 1935).

6. Carlos Zubizarreta, “Viriato Díaz Pérez,” in Cien vidas paraguayas (Buenos Aires, 1961), pp. 148–49; and Rafael Eladio Velázquez, Breve historia de la cultura en el Paraguay, seventh ed., (Asunción, 1980), pp. 209–20.

7. Gilberto González y Contreras, Juan Natalicio González: Descubridor del Paraguay (Asunción, 1951).

8. Francisco Sevillano Colom, “Lista del contenido de los volúmenes microfilmados del Archivo Nacional de Asunción,” Hispanic American Historical Review 38:1 (Feb. 1958):60–120. Also see Pan American Institute of Geography and History, Commission on History, Guiá de los documentos microfotografiados por la Unidad Movil de Microfilm de la UNESCO (México, 1963).

9. Sevillano Colom, “Lista.”

10. National Archives and Record Services, Guide to the National Archives of the United States (Washington, 1974).

11. National Archives and Record Service, Catalog of National Archive Microfilm Publications (Washington, 1974).

12. George S. Ulibarri and John P. Harrison, Guide to Materials on Latin America in the National Archives of the United States (Washington, 1974).

13. For information about the various collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, see A Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States, edited by Philip M. Hamer (New Haven, 1961); Curtis W. Garrison, List of Manuscript Collections in the Library of Congress to July 1931 (Washington, 1932); C. Percy Powell, List of Manuscript Collections Received in the Library of Congress, July 1931 to July 1938 (Washington, 1939); the Annual Report of the Library of Congress from 1938 to 1942; and the Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions from 1943 to the present.

14. Accession to presidential libraries and the opening of previously closed holdings are announced in Prologue and usually in the American Historical Association Newsletter.

15. Hamer, A Guide, p. 173.

16. For these collections with an associated MS number, see the relevant volume of the Library of Congress Catalogs, The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, 1959–.