Bibliography of Paraguay

This is a bibliography of Paraguay.

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Geography and natural history

• Attenborough, David, Zoo Quest in Paraguay (1959; Lutterworth Press)
• Durrell, Gerald, The Drunken Forest (1956; Penguin)
• Hayes, Floyd E., Status, Distribution and Biogeography of the Birds of Paraguay (1995, American Birding Association)
• Kerr, John Graham, A Naturalist in the Chaco (1968; Greenwood Press)
• Lewis, Daniel K., A South American Frontier: The Tri-Border Region (2006; Chelsea House Publications)

History

General

• Lambert, Peter & Nickson, Andrew (eds.), The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics (2013, Duke University Press)
• Lewis, Paul H., Socialism, Liberalism and Dictatorship in Paraguay (1982; Greenwood Press)
• Macintyre, Ben, Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elizabeth Nietzsche (1993; Broadway)
• Mora, Frank O. and Cooney, Jerry W., Paraguay and the United States: Distant Allies (2007; University of Georgia Press)
• Nickson, Andrew, Historical Dictionary of Paraguay (2015, Rowman and Littlefield)
• Nickson, Andrew, Paraguay: An Annotated Bibliography (1999; ABC-Clio Inc)
• Souter, Gavin, A Peculiar People: the Australians in Paraguay (1968; University of Queensland Press)
• Stoesz, Edward, Like a Mustard Seed: Mennonites in Paraguay (2008; Herald Press)
• Washburn, Charles Ames, The History of Paraguay (1871/2005; Adamant Media Corporation)
• Whitehead, Anne, Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay (1998; University of Queensland Press)

Colonial era

• Garrett, Victoria L. and Loaeza, Pablo García (eds.), The Improbable Conquest: Sixteenth-Century Letters from the Río de la Plata (2014; Latin American Originals)
• Gott, Richard, Land Without Evil: Utopian Journeys Across the South American Watershed (1993; Verso)
• López, Adelberto, The Colonial History of Paraguay: The Revolt of the Comuneros, 1721-1735 (2005; Transaction Publishers)
• Morison, Samuel Eliot, European Discovery of America: Southern Voyages, A.D.1492-1616 (1974; Oxford University Press)

The Jesuits and the reducciones

• Abdou, Sélim, The Jesuit Republic of the Guaranis (1609-1768) and its Heritage (1997; Crossroad)
• Caraman, Philip, The Lost Paradise: The Jesuit Republic in South America (1976; Seabury Press)
• Cunninghame-Graham, Robert Bontine, A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay, 1607 to 1767 (1901; various publishers - in public domain)
• Jaenike, William F., Black Robes in Paraguay: The Success of the Guarani Missions Hastened the Abolition of the Jesuits (2008; Kirk House Publishers)
• Koebel, William Henry, In Jesuit Land: The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay (1912/2010; Cornell University Library)
• McNaspy, C. J., Lost Cities of Paraguay: Art and Architecture of the Jesuit Reductions, 1607-1767 (1982; Loyola University Press)
• Sarreal, Julia, The Guarani and their missions (2014, Stanford University Press)
• Satterlee, D., The Role of Productivity in Community Success: The Jesuit-Guaraní Cultural Confluence (2013; CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)

Paraguay in the 19th and early 20th centuries

• Barret, William Edmund, Woman on Horseback: the Biography of Francisco Lopez and Eliza Lynch (1938; F.A. Stokes)
• Brodksy, Alvin, Madame Lynch and Friend: The True Account of an Irish Adventuress and the Dictator of Paraguay Who Destroyed That American Nation (1976; Littlehampton Book Services Ltd)
• Burton, Richard, Letters from the Battle-Fields of Paraguay (1870/2005; Adamant Media Corporation in Spanish)
• Chesterton, Bridget María, The Grandchildren of Solano López: Frontier and Nation in Paraguay, 1904-1936 (2013; University of New Mexico Press)
• Doratioto, Francisco, Maldita Guerra: Nueva Historia de la Guerra del Paraguay (2004; Emece Editores)
• Esposito, Gabriele, Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864-70: Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina (2015; Osprey Publishing)
• Escudero, Antonio Gutiérrez, Francisco Solano Lopez: Napoleon de Paraguay (1994; Anaya Publishers; in Spanish)
• Hooker, Terry D., Armies of the 19th Century: The Americas - The Paraguayan War (2008; Foundry Books)
• Kohn, Roger, Weep, Weep, Grey Bird, Weep: The Paraguayan War 1864-1870 (2008; AuthorHouse)
• Kraay, Hendrick and Whigham, Thomas L., I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864-1870 (2005; University of Nebraska Press)
• Leuchars, Chris, To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance (2002; Praeger)
• Lewis, Paul H., Political Parties and Generations in Paraguay's Liberal Era, 1869-1940 (2009; University of North Carolina Press)
• Plá, Josefina, The British in Paraguay, 1850-1870 (1976; The Richmond Publishing Company)
• Rees, Sián, The Shadow of Elisa Lynch (2003; Review)
• Saeger, James Schofield, Francisco Solano López and the Ruination of Paraguay: Honor and Egocentrism (2007; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
• Thompson, George, The War in Paraguay: With a Historical Sketch of the Country and Its People and Notes Upon the Military Engineering of the War (1869/2007; various - in the public domain)
• Warren, Harris Gaylord, Paraguay and the Triple Alliance (1978; University of Texas Press)
• Warren, Harris Gaylord, Rebirth of the Paraguayan Republic: The First Colorado Era, 1878-1904 (1985; University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Whigham, Thomas, The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct (Volume 1) (2002; University of Nebraska Press)
• Williams, John Hoyt, The Rise and Fall of the Paraguayan Republic, 1800-1870 (1979; University of Texas Press)

The Chaco War

• English, Adrian J., The Green Hell: A Concise History of the Chaco War Between Bolivia and Paraguay, 1932-35 (2008; The History Press)
• Farcau, Bruce, The Chaco War: Bolivia and Paraguay, 1932-1935 (1996; Praeger Publishers)
• Hagedorn, Dan and Sapienza, Antonio L., Aircraft of the Chaco War 1928-1935 (2000; Schiffer Publishing Ltd.)
• Quesada, Alejandro, The Chaco War 1932-35 (2011; Osprey Publishing)

Modern history

• Alegria, Claribel and Flakoll, Darwin, Death of Somoza (1996; Curbstone Press)
• Lambert, Peter & Nickson, Andrew (eds.), The Transition to Democracy in Paraguay (1997; Palgrave Macmillan)
• Lewis, Paul, Paraguay Under Stroessner (1980; The University of North Carolina Press)
• Miranda, Carlos R., The Stroessner Era: Authoritarian Rule in Paraguay (1990; Westview Press)
• O'Shaughnessy, Hugh, The Priest of Paraguay: Fernando Lugo and the Making of a Nation (2009; Zed Books)
• Painter, James, Paraguay in the 1970s: Continuity and Change in the Political Process (1983; University of London)
• White, Richard Alan, Breaking Silence: Case That Changed the Face of Human Rights (2004; Georgetown University Press)

Culture

Cuisine

• Diaz, Milton Rui, Cocina Paraguaya (2005; La Grulla; in Spanish)
• Van Houten, Lynn, Flavors of Paraguay: A Cookbook (1997; Anteater Press)

Indigenous Paraguayans

• Aren, Richard, Genocide in Paraguay (1976; Temple University Press)
• Batten, Mary, Anthropologist: Scientist of the People (2001; Houghton Mifflin)
• Bessire, L, Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle Of Ayoreo Life (2014; University of Chicago Press)
• Blaser, Mario, Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond (2010; Duke University Press Books)
• Britton, A. Scott, Guarani-English/English-Guarani Concise Dictionary (2004; Hippocrene Books)
• Clastres, Helene, The Land-without-Evil: Tupi-Guarani Prophetism (1996; University of Illinois Press)
• Clastres, Pierre, Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (1972/1998, Zone Books; originally published in French as Chronique des indiens Guayaki)
• Duckworth, Cheryl, Land and Dignity in Paraguay (2011; Continuum)
• Escobar, Ticio, The Curse of Nemur: In Search of the Art, Myth and Ritual of the Ishir (2007; University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Foote, Nicola and Horst, René D. Harder, Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America: Race, Nation, and Community during the Liberal Period (2010; University Press of Florida)
• Ganson, Barbara, The Guarani Under Spanish Rule in the Rio de la Plata (2003; Stanford University Press)
• Gaska, Henryk, Constructing Ava Guarani Ethnic Identity: The Emergence of Indian Organization in Paraguay (2010; VDM Verlag Dr. Müller)
• Grubb, Wilfred Barbrooke, An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: An Account of the Life and Customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco... (1914; Cornell University Library)
• Hill, Kim and Hurtado, A. Magdalena, Ache Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People (1996; Aldine Transaction)
• Horst, René Harder, The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay (2010; University Press of Florida)
• Keeney, Bradford, Guarani Shamans of the Forest (2000; Leete's Island Books)
• Maybury-Lewis, David, The Indian Peoples of Paraguay: Their Plight and Their Prospects (1980; Cultural Survival)
• Miller, Elmer S. (ed.), Peoples of the Gran Chaco (2001; Greenwood Press)
• Olivera, David A. Galeano, La Idioma y Cultura de Guarani en Paraguay (2011; Piro Tase; in Spanish)
• Olson, James Stuart, The Indians of Central and South America: an Ethnohistorical Dictionary (1991; Greenwood Press)
• Reed, Richard, Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors: Indigenous Models for International Development (1996; Pearson)
• Reed, Richard K., Prophets of Agroforestry: Guarani Communities and Commercial Gathering (1995; University of Texas Press)
• Renshaw, John, The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco: Identity and Economy (2002; University of Nebraska Press)
• Simoneau, Karin and Wilbert, Johannes, Folk Literature of the Ayoreo Indians (1990; University of California at LA)
• Simoneau, Karin and Wilbert, Johannes, Folk Literature of the Chamacoco Indians (1989; University of California at LA)

Music

• Stover, Richard D., Six Silver Moonbeams: The Life and Times of Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1992; Querico)

Travel and tourism

• Boschmann, Erwin, Paraguay - A Tour Guide (2009; Science Enterprises)
• Box, Ben, Footprint Focus Guide: Paraguay (2011; Footprint Travel Guides)
• Carver, Robert, Paradise with Serpents: Travels in the Lost World of Paraguay (2009; HarperCollins UK)
• Crespo, Martin, Magic Hour: Hora Magica en Asuncion (2013; CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
• Gimlette, John, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay (2003; Arrow)
• Goldberg, Romy Natalia, Other Places Travel Guide: Paraguay (2012, Places Publishing)
• Hebblethwaite, Margaret, Bradt Travel Guide: Paraguay (2010; Bradt Travel Guides)
• Iyer, Pico, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of The World (1994; Vintage)
• Meyer, Gordon, The River and the People (1967; Readers Union)
• Smith, Julia Llwellyn, Traveling on the Edge: Journeys in the Footsteps of Graham Greene (2003; St. Martin's Griffin)

See also