RIORDAN ROETT is the Sarita and Don Johnston Professor and Director of Latin American Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at The John Hopkins University. He has authored or edited numerous articles and books on Brazil's political development, including Brazil in the Sixties, The Politics of Foreign Aid in the Brazilian Northeast, Brazil in the Seventies, and three previous editions of Brazil: Politics in a Patrimonial Society.

• Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Paraguayan History, 1524–1904 -- Modern Paraguayan History: The Twentieth Century -- The Paraguayan Economy -- Culture and Society -- Politics and Government -- International Relations