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Title Big Water : the Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay / edited by Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas
Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2018

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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
Indigenous Studies
History
Latin America
South America
Notes Foreword by Zephyr Frank
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Social sciences.
social sciences.
HISTORY -- General.
Historiography
Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay) -- Historiography
South America -- Tri-Border Area
Brazil.
Argentina.
Paraguay.
Genre/Form Dust jackets (Binding.
Dust jackets.
Form Electronic book
Author Frank, Zephyr L., 1970- writer of foreword.
Freitas, Frederico, editor
Blanc, Jacob, editor
LC no. 2017042837
ISBN 9780816538294
0816538298
0816541736
9780816541737