Big Water : The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay /
"A transnational approach to the history of a key Latin American border region"--Provided by publisher.
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Tucson :
The University of Arizona Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword / Zephyr Frank
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas
- Part I. Adaption
- 1. Embodied Borderland: Colonial Guairá, 1570s-1630s / Shawn Michael Austin
- 2. Jesuit Missions and the Guarani Ethnogenesis: Political Interactions, Indigenous Actors, and Regional Networks on the Southern Frontier of the Iberian Empires / Guillermo Wilde
- Part II. Environment
- 3. Crossing Borders: Immigration and Transformation of Landscapes in Misiones Province, Argentina, and Southern Brazil / Eunice Sueli Nodari
- 4. Argentinizing the Border: Conservation and Colonization in the Iguazú National Park, 1890s-1950s / Frederico Freitas
- Part III. Belonging
- 5. A Devilish Prank, a Dodgy Caudillo, and the Tortured Production of Postcolonial Sovereignty in the Borderlands of López-Era Paraguay / Michael Kenneth Huner
- 6. Beyond historia pátria: The Jesuit-Guarani Missions, World Heritage, and Other Histories of Cultural Patrimony in Mercosul/Mercosur / Daryle Williams
- 7. Walking on the Bad Land: The Guarani Indians in the Triple Frontier / Evaldo Mendes da Silva
- Part IV. Development
- 8. A Turbulent Border: Geopolitics and the Hydroelectric Development of the Paraná River / Jacob Blanc
- 9. From Porteño to Pontero: The Shifting of Paraguayan Geography and Identity in Asunción in the Early Years of the Stroessner Regime / Bridget María Chesterton
- 10. Ciudad del Este and the Common Market: A Tale of Two Economic Integrations / Christine Folch
- Conclusion: Space, Nation, and Frontiers in the Rioplatense Discourse / Graciela Silvestri
- Contributors
- Index.