I have been building this non-inclusive list of articles (not separate book chapters) to go along with the list on secondary books. This list will be built over time and I will add to it as I go along. I should note that this list are suggested readings for those learning Paraguayan history and culture, but are not the only great reads out there.
Nineteenth Century
Huner, Michael Kenneth. “Liberal Youth Modern Exuberance, and Calamity: Aspirations for Modern Nationhood in Paraguay, 1858-1870.” A Contracorriente 12, no. 2 (Winter 2015): 140-177.
The War of the Triple Alliance
Whigham, Thomas. “Court of Blood: Treason and Terror under Paraguay’s Francisco Solano López” The Americas 75 no. 2 (April 2018): 325-348.
Liberal Era and Chaco War
Chesterton, Bridget María. “Composing Gender and Class: Paraguayan Letter Writers during the Chaco War, 1932-1935.” Journal of Women’s History 26, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 59-80.
Chesterton, Bridget María, and Anatoly V. Isaenko. “A White Russian in the Green Hell: Military Science, Ethnography, and Nation Building.” Hispanic American Historical Review 94, no. 4 (Winter 2014): 616-648.
Mid-Late Twentieth Century and Twenty First Century
Nickson, Robert Andrew. “Governance and the Revitalization of the Guaraní Language in Paraguay.” Latin American Research Review 44, no. 3 (2009): 3-26.
Folch, Christine. “The Cause of All Paraguayans? Defining and Defending Hydroelectric Sovereignty.” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 20, issue 2 (July 2015): 242-263.
Folch, Christine. “Surveillance and State Violence in Stroessner’s Paraguay: Itaipú Hydroelectric Dam, Archives of Terror.” American Anthropologist 115, no 1 (March 2013): 44-57.
Tyvela, Kirk. “‘A Slight but Salutary Case of the Jitters:’ The Kennedy Administration and the Alliance for Progress in Paraguay.” Diplomacy and Statecraft 22, no 2: 300-320.
Commodities Histories
Chesterton, Bridget María, and Timothy Yang. “The Global History of a ‘Paraguayan’ Sweetener: Ka’a He’e and Stevia in the Twentieth Century.” The Journal of World History 27, no 2 (2016): 255-279.
Folch, Christine. “Stimulating Consumption: Yerba Mate Myths, Markets and Meanings from Conquest to Present.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 52, no 1: 6-36.
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