The Epic of the Chaco
Author: José Felix Estigarribia
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 221
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 221
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jose Felix Estigarribia
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2019-01-13
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 178912381X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1950, The Epic of the Chaco is the fascinating memoir of the 34th President of Paraguay, Jose Felix Estigarribia, written between 1938-1939 in Washington, D.C., “whilst discharging his duties as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary Paraguay.” The book’s editor, Pablo Max Ynsfrán, acted as counsellor of the Paraguayan legation during the same period and collaborated in drafting Estigarribia’s recollections as they are set down in the present volume. “The importance of this publication for the military historian of the Chaco War (1932-1935), in which Paraguay and Bolivia were involved, can hardly be overrated. Marshal Estigarribia held in that armed conflict—one of the most sanguinary ever fought by two South-American republics—the unique position of being the top planner (perhaps the only one) and the commander in chief of the Paraguayan army in the field during the entire course of the campaign. The remarkable success of his leadership is a well-known fact. He emerged from the Chaco War as one of the outstanding masters of strategy in South-American history.”—Editor’s Preface
Author: José Félix Estigarribia
Publisher:
Published: 2011-10
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781258154042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →University Of Texas Institute Of Latin-American Studies, V8.
Author: Jose Felix Estigarribia
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 221
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kendrick Frazier
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780393318258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David M. Brugge
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 556
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the present report, David Brugge, a National Park Service anthropologist and a recognized authority on the Athabaskans of the Southwest, carefully and meticulously details the history of the Navajo people of the Chaco area. Brugge's account is fundamentally descriptive and consciously impartial. Yet at times he presents us alternative views to the published accounts of historical events of the area, offering the "Navajo version" as gleaned from interviews with the old people themselves.
Author: Dan Flores
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2022-10-25
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 132400617X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America. In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America’s known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent’s evolutionary richness. Distinguished author Dan Flores’s ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the “wild new world” of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before. The arrival of humans precipitated an extraordinary disruption of this teeming environment. Flores treats humans not as a species apart but as a new animal entering two continents that had never seen our likes before. He shows how our long past as carnivorous hunters helped us settle America, initially establishing a coast-to-coast culture that lasted longer than the present United States. But humanity’s success had devastating consequences for other creatures. In telling this epic story, Flores traces the origins of today’s “Sixth Extinction” to the spread of humans around the world; tracks the story of a hundred centuries of Native America; explains how Old World ideologies precipitated 400 years of market-driven slaughter that devastated so many ancient American species; and explores the decline and miraculous recovery of species in recent decades. In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America’s animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Eons in scope and continental in scale, Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animal-human story in America.
Author: John A. Crow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 964
ISBN-13: 9780520037762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, this book has been revised and brought up to date, with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s.
Author: University of Texas. Institute of Latin American Studies
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leslie Bethell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 944
ISBN-13: 9780521266529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Enth.: Bd. 1-2: Colonial Latin America ; Bd. 3: From Independence to c. 1870 ; Bd. 4-5: c. 1870 to 1930 ; Bd. 6-10: Latin America since 1930 ; Bd. 11: Bibliographical essays.