Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapters
• 1. The “Provincia Gigante” in the Eighteenth Century
• 2. JosÉ Gaspar de Francia and the Paraguayan Revolution
• 3. Perpetual Means Forever: Francia and the Remodeling of Paraguayan Society
• 4. The Diplomacy of Isolation, 1820-1840
• 5. The Supreme Dictatorship, 1820-1840
• 6. The Old Order Changeth?
• 7. A New Paraguay is Stirring
• 8. The Economic Pulse Quickens
• 9. The Diplomacy of Frustration
• 10. Threat and Counter-Threat: The 1850s
• 11. Foreigners and the Modernization of Paraguay
• 12. “Francisco Solano’s Error: The War”
• 13. The Immolation of Paraguay
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

John Hoyt Williams (1940–2003) was Professor of History at Indiana State University.