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Barbara Potthast

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ID82040
NAMEBarbara Potthast
GIVEN NAMESBarbara
FAMILY NAMEPotthast
SIGNATUREPOTTHAST B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cologne
ORCID0000-0003-3831-2766
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1
  • Familia en tiempos de guerra. Reflexiones a propósito de la Guerra del Paraguay (1864-1870)

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Historia Mexicana•2025

    En este artículo se analiza el papel de la familia en la Guerra del Paraguay como caso paradigmático de las guerras latinoamericanas del siglo XIX, que, además, tiene algunas particularidades. Se muestra cómo, en el curso de la guerra, se transtornaron las relaciones de género y se desarticularon las estructuras de las familias y de los hogares. Una particularidad paraguaya fue el temprano involucramiento de las mujeres en la economía de guerra, …

  • “El país de las mujeres”: Génesis de un estereotipo nacional paraguayo de extranjeros

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Revista Historia Autónoma•2024

    Después de la guerra devastadora contra la Triple Alianza, que exterminó gran parte de la población masculina, la sociedad y economía de Paraguay, casi completamente destrozadas, quedaron en manos de las mujeres. Aunque las mujeres paraguayas habían sido activas en el espacio público ya antes de la guerra, como en el mercado, la omnipresencia femenina llamó la atención a los contemporáneos extranjeros. Este panorama atrajo la curiosidad de viajer…

  • Death in the snow: Pedro de Alvarado and the illusive conquest of Peru

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•European Review of Latin American…•2024

    Death in the snow: Pedro de Alvarado and the illusive conquest of Peru, by W. George Lovell. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022

  • La moral pública y el Estado en Paraguay a mediados del siglo XIX

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Boletín americanista/Boletín…•2024

    En este artículo, debatimos el carácter del Estado paraguayo a mediados del siglo XIX bajo la perspectiva de su política administrativa y sociocultural a partir de regulaciones estatales, pleitos judiciales y datos demográficos. Analizamos la voluntad del presidente Carlos Antonio López de reconstruir el poder de la Iglesia y de hacer de esta un agente importante en su objetivo de fortalecer el Estado patriarcal. Su intento de mejorar la «moral p…

  • La Independencia Paraguaya Y La Supuesta Homogeneización Étnica De La Joven Nación

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Almanack•2022•References: 6

    La independencia paraguaya se diferencia de las otras independencias sudamericanas por el hecho de que fue conseguida sin una prolongada guerra, aunque los conflictos violentos en el antiguo virreinato del Río de la Plata influyeron profundamente en la formación del nuevo estado, sobre todo en el establecimiento de la Dictadura del Dr. Francia, aprobada por un congreso popular. En este artículo, examinamos este proceso, para después analizar la p…

  • Mestizaje and Conviviality in Paraguay

    Barbara Potthast, Joaquim Elói Cirne De Toledo Júnior•REPORT•2020

    This paper traces the origin of the powerful mestizaje discourse as a marker of Paraguayan identity through the lens of gender and family relations. Rules and practices of family formation and sexuality reflect not only cultural but also sociopolitical hierarchies, and they allow us to connect the micro- and macro levels. An analysis of the different regimes of conviviality in Paraguay and the role that legitimate or illegitimate birth played in …

  • Lourdes Peruchena, Buena madre, virtuosa ciudadana. Maternidad y rol polític: Rebecca Linke Editoras, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2010, 303 p

    Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Clio•2020

    Les livres sur l’histoire uruguayenne ne sont pas légion en Europe (ni en Amérique d’ailleurs), bien que le petit pays du Rio de la Plata soit un cas intéressant, surtout en ce qui concerne l’histoire des femmes. En 1932, l’Uruguay a été l’un des premiers pays d’Amérique latine à accorder des droits politiques complets aux femmes. La lutte féministe s’est inscrite dans un programme général de réformes qui a transformé l’Uruguay en un État-provide…

  • Madres, obreras, amantes: Protagonismo femenino en la historia de América Latina

    Barbara Potthast•BOOK•Madres, Obreras, Amantes...•2010

  • Kultur, Identität und soziale Hierarchien. Die argentinische Ober- und Mittelschicht in neueren kulturhistorischen Arbeiten

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Anuario de Historia de América…•2010

    We’ve built this digital research platform to provide academics everywhere with fast, stable and secure digital access to our library of over 110,000 scholarly books and 800,000 journal articles. We’ve tested the platform in close cooperation with leading academic institutions. If you have any questions or you notice something doesn’t quite work as it should, please visit our Help/FAQ page and let us know

  • South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text

    Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Hispanic American Historical Review•2008

    For a long time, the independence of Latin America was regarded as an exclusively male affair, a military and political enterprise in which women neither played a major role nor profited from the newly won freedom. In the last few years, however, historians have started to inquire into the consequences of republicanism and liberalism for gender roles. The book by Davies, Brewster, and Owen follows this line. It addresses the different forms in wh…

  • Entre lo invisible y lo pintoresco: Las mujeres paraguayas en la economía campesina (siglo XIX)

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Anuario de Historia de América…•2003

    We’ve built this digital research platform to provide academics everywhere with fast, stable and secure digital access to our library of over 110,000 scholarly books and 800,000 journal articles. We’ve tested the platform in close cooperation with leading academic institutions. If you have any questions or you notice something doesn’t quite work as it should, please visit our Help/FAQ page and let us know

  • Refining the Numbers: A Response to Reber and Kleinpenning

    Open Access•Thomas Whigham, Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•2002•Cited by: 1

    Our purpose in publishing our 1999 piece in LARR was twofold: to announce the unexpected discovery of a key 1870-1871 census and to suggest some tentative conclusions based on the information it contained. We never thought of offering the final word on the intriguing question of wartime demographics in Paraguay. When we used the term Rosetta stone to describe the 1870-1871 census, we had in mind the serendipitous character of its discovery and th…

  • Der Heiratsmarkt im kolonialen Uruguay: Geschlechterbeziehungen in einer Grenzregion Spanisch-Amerikas, 1727-1810

    Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Hispanic American Historical Review•2002

    The book studies marriage and gender relations in a unique historical region of Latin America, namely the Band Oriental del Uruguay. The peculiarity lies in the fact that the formation of the colonial society took place at a time when this process had already come to an end in other parts of the Spanish empire. Colonization was mostly directed and influenced by Spain, which meant that the cultural codes that came into contact—and sometimes into c…

  • Los mancebos de la tierra: La élite mestiza de Asunción durante la época colonial

    Barbara Potthast•CHAPTER•Beneméritos, Aristócratas y…•2000

  • El espacio interior de América del Sur: Geografía, historia, política, cultura

    Barbara Potthast, Karl Kohut et al.•BOOK•Espacio Interior de América Del Sur•1999

    Estudios históricos sobre un área geográfica poco tratada por los especialistas: el "espacio interior", esto es, el llano boliviano, el chaco y las provincias de Corrientes y Misiones, en Argentina, y Mato Grosso y Paraná, en Brasil.

  • Espacio Interior de América Del Sur: Geografía, Historia, Política, Cultura

    Barbara Potthast, Gerd Kohlhepp et al.•BOOK•Espacio Interior de América Del Sur•1999

  • El mestizaje del Paraguay como identidad nacional y mito nacionalista

    Barbara Potthast•CHAPTER•Espacio Interior de América Del Sur•1999

  • The Paraguayan Rosetta Stone: New Insights into the Demographics of the Paraguayan War, 1864–1870

    Open Access•Thomas Whigham, Thomas L Whigham et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•1999

    The demographics of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) have long fascinated historicans and sociologists. If the oft-repeated tales of a 70 percent loss of life in Paraguay are accurate, then this war represents a singular case in modern history, one full of implications for students of militarism, gender, and culture. This study analyzes a newly discovered census from 1870 and reworks earlier censal materials. The authors conclude that the old stori…

  • Some Strong Reservations: "A Critique of Vera Blinn Reber's "The Demographics of Paraguay: A Reinterpretation of the Great War, 1864-70

    Bera Blinn Reber, Thomas Whigham et al.•ARTICLE•Hispanic American Historical Review•1990•Cited by: 5

    When addressing weaknesses in the historical literature, or when confronting national myths, scholars should avoid overreacting. Too many have fallen into Scylla while trying to miss Charybdis. Vera Blinn Reber's The Demographics of Paraguay: A Reinterpretation of the Great War, 1864-70 (HAHR, May 1988) is a case of how a needed corrective can go too far. Reber's main argument-that the magnitude of Paraguay's population loss during the Triple All…

  • Die Mosquitoküste im Spannungsfeld: Britischer und spanischer Politik 1502-1821

    Thomas Schoonover, Thomas D Schoonover et al.•ARTICLE•Hispanic American Historical Review•1989

  • Some Strong Reservations: "A Critique of Vera Blinn Reber's "The Demographics of Paraguay: A Reinterpretation of the Great War, 1864-70

    Bera Blinn Reber, Thomas Whigham et al.•ARTICLE•Hispanic American Historical Review•1990•Cited by: 5

    When addressing weaknesses in the historical literature, or when confronting national myths, scholars should avoid overreacting. Too many have fallen into Scylla while trying to miss Charybdis. Vera Blinn Reber's The Demographics of Paraguay: A Reinterpretation of the Great War, 1864-70 (HAHR, May 1988) is a case of how a needed corrective can go too far. Reber's main argument-that the magnitude of Paraguay's population loss during the Triple All…

  • Refining the Numbers: A Response to Reber and Kleinpenning

    Open Access•Thomas Whigham, Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•2002•Cited by: 1

    Our purpose in publishing our 1999 piece in LARR was twofold: to announce the unexpected discovery of a key 1870-1871 census and to suggest some tentative conclusions based on the information it contained. We never thought of offering the final word on the intriguing question of wartime demographics in Paraguay. When we used the term Rosetta stone to describe the 1870-1871 census, we had in mind the serendipitous character of its discovery and th…

  • Die Mosquitoküste im Spannungsfeld: Britischer und spanischer Politik 1502-1821

    Thomas Schoonover, Thomas D Schoonover et al.•ARTICLE•Hispanic American Historical Review•1989

  • Some Strong Reservations: "A Critique of Vera Blinn Reber's "The Demographics of Paraguay: A Reinterpretation of the Great War, 1864-70

    Bera Blinn Reber, Thomas Whigham et al.•ARTICLE•Hispanic American Historical Review•1990•Cited by: 5

    When addressing weaknesses in the historical literature, or when confronting national myths, scholars should avoid overreacting. Too many have fallen into Scylla while trying to miss Charybdis. Vera Blinn Reber's The Demographics of Paraguay: A Reinterpretation of the Great War, 1864-70 (HAHR, May 1988) is a case of how a needed corrective can go too far. Reber's main argument-that the magnitude of Paraguay's population loss during the Triple All…

  • El espacio interior de América del Sur: Geografía, historia, política, cultura

    Barbara Potthast, Karl Kohut et al.•BOOK•Espacio Interior de América Del Sur•1999

    Estudios históricos sobre un área geográfica poco tratada por los especialistas: el "espacio interior", esto es, el llano boliviano, el chaco y las provincias de Corrientes y Misiones, en Argentina, y Mato Grosso y Paraná, en Brasil.

  • Espacio Interior de América Del Sur: Geografía, Historia, Política, Cultura

    Barbara Potthast, Gerd Kohlhepp et al.•BOOK•Espacio Interior de América Del Sur•1999

  • El mestizaje del Paraguay como identidad nacional y mito nacionalista

    Barbara Potthast•CHAPTER•Espacio Interior de América Del Sur•1999

  • The Paraguayan Rosetta Stone: New Insights into the Demographics of the Paraguayan War, 1864–1870

    Open Access•Thomas Whigham, Thomas L Whigham et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•1999

    The demographics of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) have long fascinated historicans and sociologists. If the oft-repeated tales of a 70 percent loss of life in Paraguay are accurate, then this war represents a singular case in modern history, one full of implications for students of militarism, gender, and culture. This study analyzes a newly discovered census from 1870 and reworks earlier censal materials. The authors conclude that the old stori…

  • Los mancebos de la tierra: La élite mestiza de Asunción durante la época colonial

    Barbara Potthast•CHAPTER•Beneméritos, Aristócratas y…•2000

  • Refining the Numbers: A Response to Reber and Kleinpenning

    Open Access•Thomas Whigham, Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•2002•Cited by: 1

    Our purpose in publishing our 1999 piece in LARR was twofold: to announce the unexpected discovery of a key 1870-1871 census and to suggest some tentative conclusions based on the information it contained. We never thought of offering the final word on the intriguing question of wartime demographics in Paraguay. When we used the term Rosetta stone to describe the 1870-1871 census, we had in mind the serendipitous character of its discovery and th…

  • Der Heiratsmarkt im kolonialen Uruguay: Geschlechterbeziehungen in einer Grenzregion Spanisch-Amerikas, 1727-1810

    Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Hispanic American Historical Review•2002

    The book studies marriage and gender relations in a unique historical region of Latin America, namely the Band Oriental del Uruguay. The peculiarity lies in the fact that the formation of the colonial society took place at a time when this process had already come to an end in other parts of the Spanish empire. Colonization was mostly directed and influenced by Spain, which meant that the cultural codes that came into contact—and sometimes into c…

  • Entre lo invisible y lo pintoresco: Las mujeres paraguayas en la economía campesina (siglo XIX)

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Anuario de Historia de América…•2003

    We’ve built this digital research platform to provide academics everywhere with fast, stable and secure digital access to our library of over 110,000 scholarly books and 800,000 journal articles. We’ve tested the platform in close cooperation with leading academic institutions. If you have any questions or you notice something doesn’t quite work as it should, please visit our Help/FAQ page and let us know

  • South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text

    Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Hispanic American Historical Review•2008

    For a long time, the independence of Latin America was regarded as an exclusively male affair, a military and political enterprise in which women neither played a major role nor profited from the newly won freedom. In the last few years, however, historians have started to inquire into the consequences of republicanism and liberalism for gender roles. The book by Davies, Brewster, and Owen follows this line. It addresses the different forms in wh…

  • Madres, obreras, amantes: Protagonismo femenino en la historia de América Latina

    Barbara Potthast•BOOK•Madres, Obreras, Amantes...•2010

  • Kultur, Identität und soziale Hierarchien. Die argentinische Ober- und Mittelschicht in neueren kulturhistorischen Arbeiten

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Anuario de Historia de América…•2010

    We’ve built this digital research platform to provide academics everywhere with fast, stable and secure digital access to our library of over 110,000 scholarly books and 800,000 journal articles. We’ve tested the platform in close cooperation with leading academic institutions. If you have any questions or you notice something doesn’t quite work as it should, please visit our Help/FAQ page and let us know

  • Mestizaje and Conviviality in Paraguay

    Barbara Potthast, Joaquim Elói Cirne De Toledo Júnior•REPORT•2020

    This paper traces the origin of the powerful mestizaje discourse as a marker of Paraguayan identity through the lens of gender and family relations. Rules and practices of family formation and sexuality reflect not only cultural but also sociopolitical hierarchies, and they allow us to connect the micro- and macro levels. An analysis of the different regimes of conviviality in Paraguay and the role that legitimate or illegitimate birth played in …

  • Lourdes Peruchena, Buena madre, virtuosa ciudadana. Maternidad y rol polític: Rebecca Linke Editoras, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2010, 303 p

    Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Clio•2020

    Les livres sur l’histoire uruguayenne ne sont pas légion en Europe (ni en Amérique d’ailleurs), bien que le petit pays du Rio de la Plata soit un cas intéressant, surtout en ce qui concerne l’histoire des femmes. En 1932, l’Uruguay a été l’un des premiers pays d’Amérique latine à accorder des droits politiques complets aux femmes. La lutte féministe s’est inscrite dans un programme général de réformes qui a transformé l’Uruguay en un État-provide…

  • La Independencia Paraguaya Y La Supuesta Homogeneización Étnica De La Joven Nación

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Almanack•2022•References: 6

    La independencia paraguaya se diferencia de las otras independencias sudamericanas por el hecho de que fue conseguida sin una prolongada guerra, aunque los conflictos violentos en el antiguo virreinato del Río de la Plata influyeron profundamente en la formación del nuevo estado, sobre todo en el establecimiento de la Dictadura del Dr. Francia, aprobada por un congreso popular. En este artículo, examinamos este proceso, para después analizar la p…

  • “El país de las mujeres”: Génesis de un estereotipo nacional paraguayo de extranjeros

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Revista Historia Autónoma•2024

    Después de la guerra devastadora contra la Triple Alianza, que exterminó gran parte de la población masculina, la sociedad y economía de Paraguay, casi completamente destrozadas, quedaron en manos de las mujeres. Aunque las mujeres paraguayas habían sido activas en el espacio público ya antes de la guerra, como en el mercado, la omnipresencia femenina llamó la atención a los contemporáneos extranjeros. Este panorama atrajo la curiosidad de viajer…

  • Death in the snow: Pedro de Alvarado and the illusive conquest of Peru

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•European Review of Latin American…•2024

    Death in the snow: Pedro de Alvarado and the illusive conquest of Peru, by W. George Lovell. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022

  • La moral pública y el Estado en Paraguay a mediados del siglo XIX

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Boletín americanista/Boletín…•2024

    En este artículo, debatimos el carácter del Estado paraguayo a mediados del siglo XIX bajo la perspectiva de su política administrativa y sociocultural a partir de regulaciones estatales, pleitos judiciales y datos demográficos. Analizamos la voluntad del presidente Carlos Antonio López de reconstruir el poder de la Iglesia y de hacer de esta un agente importante en su objetivo de fortalecer el Estado patriarcal. Su intento de mejorar la «moral p…

  • Familia en tiempos de guerra. Reflexiones a propósito de la Guerra del Paraguay (1864-1870)

    Open Access•Barbara Potthast•ARTICLE•Historia Mexicana•2025

    En este artículo se analiza el papel de la familia en la Guerra del Paraguay como caso paradigmático de las guerras latinoamericanas del siglo XIX, que, además, tiene algunas particularidades. Se muestra cómo, en el curso de la guerra, se transtornaron las relaciones de género y se desarticularon las estructuras de las familias y de los hogares. Una particularidad paraguaya fue el temprano involucramiento de las mujeres en la economía de guerra, …

Political science (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Humanities (10 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (5 works) · Indigenous Studies in Latin America (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Historical Studies in Latin America (4 works)

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