A história esquecida da Guerra do Paraguai
Fome, Doenças E Penalidades
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5802263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Teresa Garritano Dourado (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Universidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11606/t.8.2010.tde-08122010-135132 |
| OpenAlex | W1937359306 |
| Language | PT |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Variously known as the War of Paraguay, the War of the Triple Alliance and the Big War, this bellicose conflict inflicted a significant repercussion on Latin American history in both logistics and in human mortality.The long duration of the war, from December of 1864 to March 1870, is analyzed through a body of documented works that brutally expresses the treatment of soldiers and other participants in the war.These people struggled not against a common enemy, but for survival on the battlefields.They faced shortages of water and food as well as the necessary medical-surgical supplies to support the thousands of wounded from the ferocious battles.In the capital of the Brazilian Empire as well as in the two allied capital cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, recently conscripted soldiers, the wounded and the sick, passed without any orientation regarding sanitation or vaccination.As a result, diseases, many of them in various stages of incubation, were transmitted to thousands of other soldiers and civilians, on the battlefields and in the cities where some were brought for treatment.A concentrated mass of combatants and support personnel in any military camp requires order and discipline.However, desertion, cowardice, insubordination, murder, fights, robbery, assaults, violations and other crimes were frequent and profusely documented.I analyze not only the hunger and epidemics, but the function of Military Justice during the War of Paraguay in a Brazilian army camp and in an imperial armada where the necessary disciplinary rules were often disregarded, according to sources such as the memoirs of combatants (both officers and conscripts) and in daily order records in public and private archives.I investigate the origins of the battalions of soldiers and sailors destined for the battlefields as well as the recruiting efforts and strategies for resistance, analyzing the consequences of such throughout the years of the war.I strive to demonstrate that the direct penalties were the hunger and the illness that flourished in the army camps and on the imperial naval ships thus affecting, in a crucial manner, the outcome of the war
Adversary · Alliance · Ancient history · Capital (architecture · Criminology · Desertion · Economic shortage · Empire · Nazism · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · War crime · World War II · History · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Law
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |