Episode notes
Turning Tides: Paraguayan War will discuss the War of the Triple Alliance, or López's War, as well as the effects of the war on South America and the rest of the world. The second and final episode, One Vast Tomb, will cover the period from 1867 to 1870, in which the Paraguayan population suffers from both the allied blockade and Lopez's increasing megalomania, culminating in Lopez's death on the battlefield.
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Episode 2 Sources:
1. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866-70, by Thomas L. Whigham
2. War in Paraguay, by George Thompson
3. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3200 B.C. to the Present: Fourth Edition, by R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy
4. Francisco Solano Lopez: Who Was This South American Napoleon?, by Ilyas Benabdeljalil, MA Int'l Relations, BA Political Science, https://www.thecollector.com/francisco-solano-lopez-paraguayan-war/
5. Total War in Indigenous Territories: The Impact of the Great War, by Milda Rivarola, February 18th, 2015, Revista Harvard Review of Latin America, https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/total-war-in-indigenous-territories/
6. Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay, by Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Laura Schechter, Felipe Valencia Caicedo, and S. Jessica Zhu, April 5th, 2021, https://egc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2021-04/2021-0423%20EconHistory%20Conference/Paper3A_Short%20ada-ns.pdf
7. The State and Brazilian literature: A Retirada da Laguna, by Shawn Smallman, June 9th, 2013, https://www.introtoglobalstudies.com/2013/06/the-state-and-brazilian-literature-a-retirada-da-laguna/
8. Before Venezuela, US had long involvement in Latin America, by the Associated Press, January 25th, 2019, https://apnews.com/article/2ded14659982426c9b2552827734be83
9. Wikipedia