[lit-ideas] War of the Triple Alliance
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 19:21:35 -0800
Page 29 of The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton:
"Before 1914, no living European could have imagined such brutality in what
was then considered the most civilized part of the globe. Wars had become
rare, localized, and short in Europe in the nineteenth century, fought out
by professional armies that impinged little on civilian society. Europe had
been spared the likes of the American Civil War or the War of the Triple
Alliance (Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay) against Paraguay, which reduced
the Paraguayan population by half between 1864 and 1870. When, in August
1914, a petty Balkan conflict erupted out of control into a total war among
the European Great Powers, and when those powers managed to sustain the
slaughter of an entire generation of young men over four years, it seemed to
many Europeans that their civilization itself, with its promise of peace and
progress, had failed."
Here in the U.S., there are countless "Civil War Buffs." The above
paragraph caused me to wonder if there were any "Triple Alliance Buffs" in
Argentina or in any of the other nations involved in that war.
Lawrence
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