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Thomas Whigham

twigham@uga.edu

 

Thomas Whigham is Professor of History. He teaches colonial and modern Latin America, and specializes in the social and economic history of Argentina and Paraguay in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has worked as a Fulbright scholar in both of those countries, and was the recipient of the LeConte Memorial Research award for 1996. His published books include The Politics of River Trade: Tradition and Development in the Upper Plata, 1780-1870 (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1991), La yerba mate del Paraguay (Asuncion: CPES, 1991), and El Paraguay bajo el Dr. Francia: Ensayos sobre la sociedad patrimonial (Asuncion: "El Lector," 1996) (with Jerry W. Cooney). He has just completed The Paraguayan War, Causes and Early Conduct (Lincoln and London: U of Nebraska Press, 2002), the first volume of a comprehensive study of the 1864-1870 conflict.

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