A Guerra Contra o Paraguai: História e Historiografia: Da instauração à restauração historiográfica [1871-2002]

This paper focuses on the origin of the Brazilian historiography about the War of Paraguay. It is divided into three historical moments, beginning with the instauration of national-patriotic historiography, written especially by Brazilian officers who had taken part in the conflict, and continuing with the liberal-patriotic historiography regarding that war in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, with a particular attention to J.J Chiavenatto’s work. Finally, in the context of the neo-liberalism movement of the 1980's, it looks into the process of restoration of Brazilian national-patriotic interpretations, based mostly on a critique of Chiavenatto's chronology