| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"A transnational approach to the history of a key Latin American border region"--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Social Science |
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Indigenous Studies |
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History |
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Latin America |
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South America |
| Notes |
Foreword by Zephyr Frank |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- General.
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Historiography
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Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay) -- Historiography
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South America -- Tri-Border Area
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Brazil.
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Argentina.
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Paraguay.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Dust jackets (Binding.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Frank, Zephyr L., 1970- writer of foreword.
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Freitas, Frederico, editor
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Blanc, Jacob, editor
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| LC no. |
2017042837 |
| ISBN |
9780816538294 |
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0816538298 |
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0816541736 |
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9780816541737 |
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