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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 HISTORY -- General.
Historiography
SUBJECT Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay) -- Historiography
Subject South America -- Tri-Border Area
Brazil.
Argentina.
Paraguay.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Dust jackets (Binding.
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