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Author Buckley, Eve E., author.

Title Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil.

Publication Info. The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

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Contents Development politics and scientific expertise -- Climate and culture: constructing sertanejo marginality in modern Brazil -- Civilizing the sertão: public health in Brazil's hinterland, 1910s -- Engineering the drought zone: the birth of IFOCS, 1909-1930 -- Patronizing the Northeast: IFOCS under Vargas in the 1930s -- Watering Brazil's desert: agronomists and sertão reform, 1932-1955 -- Modernizing a region: economists as development experts, 1948-1964 -- Science, politics, and social reform.
Summary This text examines Brazil's hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development.
Subject Brazil. Inspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas.
Brazil. Inspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas. (OCoLC)fst01460475
Drought relief -- Political aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Drought relief -- Social aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Irrigation engineering -- Political aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Irrigation engineering -- Social aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Sustainable development -- Political aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Sustainable development -- Social aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
Sustainable development -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01139755
Sustainable development -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01139759
Northeast Brazil. (OCoLC)fst01692631
ISBN 1469634325 (electronic book)
9781469634326 (electronic book)
9781469634319 (electronic book)
1469634317 (electronic book)
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