Guerra do Paraguai : o conflito na província de Mato Grosso

Abstract

The Paraguayan War was the biggest military conflict in the history of Latin America, it took place in South America, started in 1864 and lasted until the year 1870. On one side was the so-called Triple Alliance, composed of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, while on the other there was Paraguay, until then ruled by Francisco Solano López. From the 1960s onwards, with the revisionist current, Julio José Chiavenatto (1984) proposed the influence of British imperialism as the predominant factor in the cause of the war and destruction of Paraguay. More recently, Alfredo da Mota Menezes (1998) and Francisco Doratioto (2002) proposed that war was conceived through platinum contradictions and the consolidation of National States in the region. The article proposes to contextualize what the Paraguayan War was and how it was narrated, selecting the authors listed above, as well as answering the following question: What were the consequences of the war for the countries involved as well as for s of Mato Grosso?