A Guide to Collections on Paraguay in the United States

by Jerry W Cooney, Thomas Whigham

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This guide discusses diplomatic correspondence, genealogical materials, missionary records, political reports, and unpublished personal reminiscences.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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313292033
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/30/1995
Series:	Reference Guides to Archival and Manuscript Sources in World History , #4
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

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.

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

Editorial Reviews

A state-by-state list and description of archival and manuscript collections relating to the Western Hemisphere country least familiar to the US public and scholars. Missionary and US government records comprise much of the materials, but also cited are correspondence, personal accounts, and histories. Indexed by collection as well as subject. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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