This section is designed as an introduction to the secondary literature (books) in English on Paraguay. It is not a comprehensive list my any means but it is designed to be a starting point to learning about Paraguayan history, culture, and politics. I hope that this list will grow and become more comprehensive over time.
Broad Overviews
Blanc, Jacob, and Federico Frietas, eds. Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018.
Lambert, Peter, and Andrew Nickson, eds. The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Kleinpenning, Jan M.G. Rural Paraguay, 1870-1863 Vols. 1 and 2. Iberoamerica, 2009.
The Jesuit Period
Jackson, Robert H. Demographic Change and Ethnic Survival Among the Sedentary Populations on the Jesuit Mission Frontiers of Spanish South America. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Surreal, Julia. The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Whigham, Thomas L. The Politics of River Trade: Tradition and Development in the Upper Plata, 1780-1870. University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
The Paraguayan War (The War of the Triple Alliance)
Whigham, Thomas L. The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
Whigham , Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866-1870. Calgary: The University of Calgary Press, 2018.
The Liberal Era and The Chaco War
Chesterton, Bridget María. The Grandchildren of Solano López: Frontier and Nation in Paraguay, 1904-1936. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
Chesterton, Bridget María, ed. The Chaco War: Environment, Ethnicity and Nationalism. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2016.
The Mid and Late Twentieth Century and Twenty-First Centuries
Harder Horst, René. The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay. Tallahassee: University of Florida Press, 2010.
Hetherington, Kregg. Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
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