Overview

This volume provides the researcher with an excellent tool for investigating the history, politics, and culture of Paraguay. Although various libraries, museums, and archives in the U.S. contain documentary collections of interest to Paraguayanists, they are little known and thus underutilized. Whigham and Cooney help correct this problem. Not only do they describe the most famous collections in such libraries as the University of Texas at Austin, the Library of Congress, and the Oliveira Lima Library at Catholic University, they have also uncovered some obscure materials. From the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco to the Mennonite Archives at Bethel College in Kansas, they have run the gamut of available resources. This guide discusses diplomatic correspondence, genealogical materials, missionary records, political reports, and unpublished personal reminiscences. The authors also offer hints and advice on working in the various repositories and suggest research themes that might be developed using particular collections. An attractive format and a thorough subject index make this volume easy to use as well as informative.

Full Product Details

Author:   Jerry W Cooney ,  Thomas Whigham
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Volume:   No. 4.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9780313292033

ISBN 10:   0313292035
Pages:   136
Publication Date:   30 June 1995
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Archives and Manuscripts Arkansas California Connecticut Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Rhode Island Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington, D.C. West Virginia Collection Index Subject Index

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?This volume is an invaluable tool for documentary resources about Paraguay that are located in a variety of collections in the United States. Paraguayanists, students of Latin America, and libraries should be aware of this one-of-kind source book.?-Colonial Latin American Historical Review

Author Information

THOMAS WHIGHAM is Associate Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Politics of River Trade: Tradition and Development in the Upper Plata, 1780-1870 (1991) and is currently writing a history of the Paraguayan War. JERRY W. COONEY is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Louisville. He is the author of Economia y Sociedad en la Intendencia del Paraguay (1990) as well as many articles.

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