Prof. Thomas Whigham

Professor

Email: twhigham@uga.edu

Qualifications

1977  B.A., University of California, USA

1. Paraguay: Investigaciones de historia social y política. III Jornadas Internacionales de Historia del Paraguay en la Universidad de Montevideo (Asunciõn: Tiempo de Historia, 2013) (with Juan Manuel Casal)
2. La Guerra de la Triple Alianza. Volumen 3. Danza de muerte y destrucción (Asunción: Santillana Taurus, 2012)
3. Paraguay en la historia, la literature y la memoria. Actas de las II Jornadas Internacionales de History del Paraguay en la Universidad de Montevideo (Asunción: Tiempo de Historia, 2011) (edited with Juan Manuel Casal).
4. La Guerra de la Triple Alianza. Volumen 2. El triunfo de la violencia y el fracaso de la paz (Asunción: Santillana-Taurus, 2011).
5. La economía de la Independencia (Asunción: Intercontinental, 2010; rev. ed, 2011).
6. La Guerra de la Triple Alianza. Volumen 1. Causas e inicios del mayor conflict belico de America del Sur (Asunción: Santillana-Taurus, 2010).
7. Paraguay: El nacionalismo y la guerra. Actas de las Primeras Jornadas Internacionales de Historia del Paraguay en la Universidad de Montevideo  (Asunción: Universidad de Montevideo y Servilibro, 2009) (edited with Juan Manuel Casal).
8. Lo que el río se llevó. Estado y comercio en Paraguay y Corrientes, 1776-1870 (Asunción: Universidad Católica--CEADUC, 2009)
9. Paraguay: Revoluciones y finanzas. Escritos de Harris Gaylord Warren (Asunción: Servilibro, 2008) (edited with Jerry W. Cooney)
10. La diplomacia norteamericana durante la guerra de la Triple Alianza: Escritos escogidos de Charles Ames Washburn sobre Paraguay, 1861-1868 (Asuncion: Servilibro, 2008).   (with Juan Manuel Casal).
11. Escritos históricos de José Falcón (Asunción: Servilibro, 2006) (with Ricardo Scavone)
12. Campo y frontera. Los últimos años coloniales (Asunción: Servilibro, 2006), (with Jerry W. Cooney)
13. I Die With My Country! Perspectives on the Paraguayan War (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), (with Hendrik Kraay)
14. The Paraguayan War: A History Volume One: Causes and Early Conduct (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002) [CHOICE 2003 Outstanding Academic Title]
15. La política del comercio fluvial en el Alto Plata. Paraguay y Corrientes, 1780-1870 (Asunción, “El Lector,”1999).
16. El Paraguay bajo el Dr. Francia. Ensayos sobre la sociedad patrimonial (Asunción: Editorial “El Lector,” 1996). Pp. 179 (with Jerry W. Cooney).
17. A Guide to Collections on Paraguay in the United States (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995). Pp. xi + 115. (with Jerry W. Cooney).
18. El Paraguay bajo los López. Algunos ensayos de historia social y política (Asunción: Centro Paraguayo de Estudios Sociológicos, 1994). Pp. 173.   (with Jerry W. Cooney).
19. The Politics of River Trade: Tradition and Development in the Upper Plata, 1780-1870 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991). Pp. xviii + 274.
20. La yerba mate del Paraguay, 1780-1870 (Asunción: CPES, 1991). Pp. 152.
21. (As editor and author of prologue)   Economía y sociedad en la intendencia del Paraguay. Ensayos de Jerry W. Cooney (Asunción: CPES, 1990). Pp. 234.

1. “History: 19^th and 20^th Centuries: Argentine, Paraguay, and Uruguay,” in Katherine D. McCann and Tracy North, eds., Handbook of Latin American Studies: no. 70. Humanities (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015), 267-294.
2. “Prólogo,” in María Lucrecia Johansson, Soldados de Papel. La propaganda en la prensa paraguaya durante la Guerra de la Triple Alianza (1864-1870) (Cádiz: Ayuntamiento de Cádiz, 2014), pp. 7-14.
3. “Las otras hermanitas perdidas. Disputas de tierra y limites entre Paraguay y Argentina, siglo XIX,” in Gerardo Caetano and Ana Ribeiro, eds, Tierras, Reglamento y revolución. Reflexiones a doscientos años del Reglamento artiguista de 1815 (Montevideo: Planeta, 2015), 263-290.
4. “Autonomy, Authoritarianism, and Development,” in Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson, The Paraguay Reader (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. 70-74.
5. “I Die with my Country!,” in Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson, The Paraguay Reader (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. 82-89.
6. “History: 19th and 20th Centuries: Argentine, Paraguay, and Uruguay,” in Katherine D. McCann and Tracy North, eds., Handbook of Latin American Studies: no. 68Humanities (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013), pp. (includes historiographical essay and reviews of 90 books and scholarly articles).
7. “History: 19th and 20th Centuries: Argentine, Paraguay, and Uruguay,” in Katherine D. McCann and Tracy North, eds., Handbook of Latin American Studies: no. 66 Humanities (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), pp. 345-3537 (includes historiographical essay and reviews of 90 books and scholarly articles).
8. “History: 19th and 20th Centuries: Argentine, Paraguay, and Uruguay,” in Katherine D. McCann and Tracy North, eds., Handbook of Latin American Studies: no. 64Humanities (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009), pp. (includes historiographical essay and reviews of 121 books and scholarly articles).
9. “Introducción,” in Harris G. Warren, Paraguay y la Triple Alianza. La década de posguerra, 1869-1878 (Asuncion: Intercontinental, 2009), pp. 11-19.
10. “History: 19th and 20th Centuries: Argentine, Paraguay, and Uruguay,” in Katherine D. McCann and Tracy North, eds., Handbook of Latin American Studies: no. 62 Humanities (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007), pp. 298-337 (includes historiographical essay and reviews of 150 boooks and scholarly articles).
11. “La guerre détruit, la guerre construit. Essai sur le developpement du nationalisme en Amérique du Sud,” in Nicolás Richard, Luc Capdevila, and Capucine Boidin, Les guerres du Paraguay, aux XIXe et XXe siècles (Paris: CoLibris, 2007), pp. 23-32.
12. “History: 19th and 20th Centuries: Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay,” in Lawrence Boudon, ed., Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 60. Humanities, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005), pp. 415-460 (includes historiogaphical essay and reviews of 150 books and scholarly articles).
13. “History: 19th and 20th Centuries: Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay,” in Georgette Dorn, ed., Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 58 . Humanities (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002) (includes historiographical essay, and reviews of 150 books and scholarly articles).
14. “Democracy in Bolivia and Paraguay: A Comparison,” in Assessing Democracy in Latin America. A Tribute to Russell H. Fitzgibbon, edited by Philip Kelly (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998 ), pp. 293-303 (with Philip Kelly).
15. Creating a Guide to Paraguayan Collections: Misadventures, Frustrations, and Treasure Troves,” in Societies under Constraint: Economic and Social Pressures in Latin America. Papers of the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials , edited by Robert MacNeil (Austin, TX: SALALM, 1997), pp. 351-354.
16. “Paraguay’s Pueblos de Indios: Echoes of a Missionary Past,” in The New Latin American Mission History, edited by Erick D. Langer and Robert H. Jackson (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 157-188.
17. “Paraguayan Commerce and the Outside World, 1770-1850,” in The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 , edited by Kenneth J. Andrien and Lyman L. Johnson (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994), pp. 215-241 (with Jerry W. Cooney).
18. “Trade and Conflict on the Rivers: Corrientes, 1780-1840,” in Revolution and Restoration. The Rearrangement of Power in Argentina, 1776-1860, edited by Mark D. Szuchman and Jonathan C. Brown (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), pp. 150-176.
19. “Rosa Dominga Ocampos: A Matter of Honor in Paraguay,” in The Human Tradition in Latin America. The Nineteenth Century, edited by Judith Ewell and William H. Beezley (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Press, 1989), pp. 73-81; reprinted in the one-volume Human Tradition in Modern Latin America, edited by Beezley and Ewell (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1997) pp 53-62.

1. Silva Paranhos e as Origens dum Paraguai Pos-Lopes (1869)," Revista Dialogos (Universidade Estadual de Maringá) 19:3 (2015), 1085-1119. English version: “Silva Paranhos and the Construction of a Post-Lopista Paraguay,” forthcoming in Tesserae. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies.(UK)
2. Brazil’s ‘Balloon Corps’: Pride, Desperation, and the Limits of Military Intelligence in the Triple Alliance War,” Luso-Brazilian Review 52:2 (2015), 1-18.
3. Comentario sobre la guerra del Paraguay en la provincia de Corrientes. Impactos politicos, daños, y consecuencias en la población civil,” Universidad Nacional de Nordeste. Revista de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales y Políticas,” Año 9, no. 16 (2015), 237-242.
4. “Un origen complejo: Morir por el sueño de otros,” El País Cultural (Montevideo: El País, 5 Dec. 2014), pp. 5-6.
5. “Building the Nation While Destroying the Land: Paraguayan Journalism during the Triple Alliance War, 1864-1870,” Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas 49 (2012), 157-180.
6. “From Water comes Wine: North American Contributions in Paraguayan Historiography,” ASA Spirit Magazine. The Bilingual Publication from the American School of Asuncion, Paraguay, 2:2 (Spring 2011), 26-29.
7. “Thomas Jefferson Page: una vida de exploración, deber y tragedia,” Historia Paraguaya 48 (2007), 183-200.
8. “Refining the Numbers: A Response to Reber and Kleinpenning,” Latin American Research Review, 37:3 (2002), 143-148 (with Barbara Potthast).
9. “Los estudios sobre Paraguay en los Estados Unidos: el analisis histórico,” Revista Paraguaya de Sociología 38: 111/112 (mayo-dic. 2001), 27-36.
10. “La industria maderera en el Alto Plata: Paraguay y Corrientes, 1776-1869,” Folia Histórica del Nordeste, no. 13 (Resistencia, 1997), 55-82.
11. “Paraguay and the World Cotton Market: the ‘Crisis’ of the 1860s,” Agricultural History 68:3 (Summer 1994), 1-15; revised Spanish version: “El oro blanco del Paraguay: un episodio de la historia del algodon, 1860-1870,” Historia Paraguaya vol. 39 (1999), 311-332.
12. “A Day at the Plaza,” Midwest Quarterly 34:2 (Winter 1993), 226-239.
13. da riberea: el caso nordestino,” Folia Histórica del Nordeste 9 (1990), 143-153. (Resistencia, Argentina).
14. “Some Strong Reservations: A Critique of Vera Blinn Reber’s ‘The Demographics of Paraguay: A Reinterpretation of the Great War, 1864-70,” Hispanic American Historical Review 70:4 (Nov. 1990), 667-677 (with Barbara Potthast).
15. “The Back-Door Approach: the Alto Uruguay and Paraguayan trade, 1810-1852,” Revista de Historia de América (Instituto Pan-Americano de Geografía e Historia) no. 109 (enero-junio 1990), 45-67.
16. “Cattle Raising in the Argentine Northeast: Corrientes, c.1750-1870,” Journal of Latin American Studies 20 (Nov. 1988), 313-335.
17. “Some Reflections on Early Anglo-Paraguayan Commerce,” The Americas 44:3 (Jan. 1988), 279-284; Spanish version: “El comercio anglo-paraguayo y el Dr. Francia,” Anuario del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas Dr. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia 7:7 (dic. 1985), 65-71.
18. “Un anónimo artículo sobre las condiciones políticas del Paraguay (1822),” Revista Paraguaya de Sociología 25:71 (enero-abril 1988), 177-180; reprinted in Pasado y presente de la realidad social paraguaya, edited by Milda Rivarola (Asuncion, 1995), I: 459-462.
19. “El Dr. Francia y la ruta comercial por el río Uruguay,” Anuario del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas Dr. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia 8:8 (1986), 97-103.
20. “Agriculture and the Upper Plata: the Tobacco Trade, 1750-1865,” The Business History Review 59:4 (Winter 1985), 563-596.
21. “The Iron Works of Ybycui: Paraguayan Industrial Development in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” The Americas 35:2 (Oct. 1978), 201-18; Spanish version: “La fundición de hierro de Ybycui,” Revista Paraguaya de Sociología 19:55 (sept.-dic. 1982), 7-26; reprinted in Pasado y presente de la realidad social paraguaya, edited by Milda Rivarola (Asunción, 1995), I: 97-116.
22. “El gauchismo visto por un diplomata norteamericano: la politica platense segun Charles Ames Washburn,” forthcoming in Todo es Historia.
23. El comercio paraguayo en transición: un informe de la etapa de Solano López,” submitted to the Revista Paraguaya de Sociología.