The Paraguay reader: history, culture, politics

The foundation of human speech / León Cadogan

Contact, servitude, and resistance / Branislava Susnik

Spanish-Guaraní relations in early colonial Paraguay / Elman R. Service

The land-without-evil / Hélène Clastres

The Republic of Plato and the Guaraní / José Manuel Peramás

A vanished Arcadia / R.B. Cunninghame Graham

The revolt of the Comuneros / Adalberto López

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 López

Memoirs of the Paraguayan war / Gaspar Centurión

The women of Piribebuy / Juan O'Leary

The death of López at Cerro Corá / Silvestre Aveiro

Sufferings of a French lady in Paraguay / Dorotea Duprat de Lasserre

Declaration and protest / Eliza Lynch

The psychology of López / William Stewart

Paraguayan society in the post-war decade / Harris Gaylord Warren

The "Lincolnshire Farmers" in Paraguay / Annie Elizabeth Kennett

My pilgrimage to Caacupé / Norman O. Brown

What it is like to work in the yerba plantations / Rafael Barrett

The treatment of tree-fellers and timber workers / Reinaldo López Fretes

The golden age (without a nickel) / Helio Vera

The causes of poverty in Paraguay / Teodosio González

The Mennonites arrive in the Chaco / Walter Quiring

The Paraguayan character / Juan Sinforiano Bogarín

The Paraguayan people and their natural tendencies / Natalicio González

Cultural exile / Agustín Barrios

Profession of faith / Agustín Barrios

A new national ideology / Oscar Creydt ... [et.al.]

Capturing volunteers / Carlos Federico Reyes

The Battle of Boquerón / Alfredo Seiferheld

Memoirs of a man from Concepción / Carlos María Sienra Bonzi, as told to Roberto Sienra Zavala

A visit to Villa Hayes Military Hospital number 16 / Reginald Thompson

Scenes of thirst / Hugo Rodríguez Alcalá

A handful of earth / Hérib Campos Cervera

Proclamation of the Febrerista Revolution / F.W. Smith and Camilo Recalde

How beautiful is your voice / Ernesto Unruh and Hannes Kalisch

The Revolution of 1947 / Carlos María Sienra Bonzi, as told to Roberto Sienra Zavala

A half hour in my childhood / Eva Bichsel

Toward a Weberian characterization of the Stroessner regime / Marcial Riquelme

The revolutionary spirit of the Colorado Party / Luís María Argaña

The tragedy of Fram / Jorge Rubiani

Be careful, dictator / Elvio Romero

The worm inside 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 Alegría and Darwin Flakoll

My vote is for the people / Alcibiades González Delvalle

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 / Andrés D. Ramírez

Alfredo Stroessner : revisiting the general / Isabel Hilton

We have left our barracks / Andrés Rodríguez

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 Ycuá Bolaños / Luis Irala

Where are they? / Alberto Rodas

The Ayoreo people / Mateo Sobode Chiquenoi

So much exoticism can be deceptive / Alfredo Boccia

Inaugural presidential speech / Fernando Lugo Méndez

First person : Margarita Mbywangi / Margarita Mbywangi, as told to Jude Webber

Lessons on paternity from Lugo / Clyde Soto

Itaipú : an historic achievement that will need to be closely monitored / Ricardo Canese

A fine woman / Andrés Colmán Gutiérrez

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

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 of the Guaraní language / Miguel Ángel Verón Gómez

People of African descent in Paraguay / Ignacio Telesca

Authoritarian ideology : final comments / Guido Rodríguez Alcalá

With the help of Doña Petrona we make an incursion into folk cuisine / Helio Vera

Enough of the triple alliance! / Jorge Rubiani

Tereré as a social bond / Derlis Benítez Alvarenga

The status of women / Riordan Roett and Richard Scott Sacks

Self portrait / Bernarda

María and the Serpent / Pepa Kostianovsky

Erico / Jorge Barraza

Recipe for Chipa Guazú / Doña Aída

The national anthem in Guaraní / Félix de Guarania

Epilogue : The impeachment of President Fernando Lugo.