Abstract
The doctoral thesis by Wilma Peres Costa, published in 1996, insists on the origin of political dysfunction as the start of the war against Paraguay which brought about the proclamation of the Brazilian Republic in 1889. On the one hand, there was the replacement of the liberal-progressive parliamentary majority, by the Emperor, for a conservative government, due to reasons of state. This fact caused the start of the structural political deterioration of the Monarchy. On the other hand, the irrationality of the imperial political and social order which hindered the genesis of a modern army, triggered a critique between officers increasingly adverse to slavery, and the Monarchy. Studies on the classical Brazilian bibliography on war favor innovatory interpretations on the success which is unknown by specialized Brazilian historiography on the conflict. The modernity of the Paraguay state and its army are underlined to show the great difficulties of the Brazilian Empire to win the war.
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