Spanish missions in the New World usually pacified sedentary peoples accustomed to the agricultural mode of mission life, prompting many scholars to generalize about mission history. James Saeger now
The first serious biography of Francisco Solano L-pez in English for decades, this richly researched book tells the dramatic story of Paraguay's most notorious ruler. Despite the heroic stature he gai
Saeger (history, Lehigh U.) present a political biography of Francisco Solano Lopez (1826-1870), the Paraguayan dictator reviled by his contemporaries for having begun the War of the Triple Alliance,