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Comment On “The Paraguayan Rosetta Stone”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Vera Blinn Reber
Vera Blinn Reber*
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Shippensburg University
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Commentary and Debate
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , 2002, pp. 129 - 136
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Copyright © 2002 by the University of Texas Press

References

1. Thomas Whigham and Barbara Potthast, “The Paraguayan Rosetta Stone: New Insights into the Demographics of the Paraguayan War, 1864-1870,” LARR 34, no. 1 (1999): 174-86.

2. John Hoyt Williams, “Observations on the Paraguayan Census of 1846,” Hispanic American Historical Review 56, no. 3 (Aug. 1976):424-37, 425; Olinda Massare de Kostianovsky, “Historia y evolución de la población en el Paraguay,” in Población, urbanización y recursos humanos en el Paraguay, edited by Domingo M. Rivarola and G. Heisecke, 2d ed. (Asunción: Centro Paraguayo de Estudios Sociológicos, 1970), 220; and Anneliese Kegler de Galeano, “Alcance histórico-demográfico del censo de 1846,” Revista Paraguaya de Sociologia 18, no. 35 (Jan.–Apr. 1976):92. Also see Vera Blinn Reber, “The Demographics of Paraguay: A Reinterpretation of the Great War, 1864-70,” Hispanic American Historical Review 68, no. 2 (May 1988):289–319, 295.

3. Reber, “Demographics of Paraguay,” 299-304.

4. Ibid., 300. I had data for a few districts in 1868 and 1869, but they were statistically meaningless.

5. Many recent articles have discussed the problems involved in taking the U.S. census in 2000. For examples, see Peter Skerry, “Sampling Error,” New Republic 220, no. 22 (31 May 1999):18-20; “Census Short-Count,” Nation 268, no. 6 (15 Feb. 1999):3; and Tommy Wright, “A One-Numbered Census: Some Related History,” Science 283, no. 5,401 (22 Jan. 1999):491-92.

6. Emmanuel de Bourgade la Dardye, Le Paraguay (Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit, 1889), 104-8; and Gabriel Carrasco, La población del Paraguay, antes y después de la guerra: Rectificación de opiniones generalmente aceptadas (Asunción: A. Tall, Nación de H. Kraus, 1905).

7. Eduardo E. Arriaga, New Life Tables for Latin American Populations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1968); Richard E. Boyer and Keith A. Davies, Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Statistics and Sources, Supplement to the Statistical Abstract of Latin America (Los Angeles: Latin American Center, University of California, 1973); and Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz, The Population of Latin America, translated by W. A. R. Richardson (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974).

8. Table 2 in Reber, “The Demographics of Paraguay,” lists sources and statistics for the Paraguayan population between 1870 and 1873 (p. 296).