Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (298 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781469634326
- Brazil. Inspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas
- Brazil. Inspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas
- Sustainable development -- Social aspects
- Sustainable development -- Political aspects
- SCIENCE -- Environmental Science
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- Developpement durable -- Aspect social -- Nordeste (Bresil)
- Developpement durable -- Aspect politique -- Nordeste (Bresil)
- Technique de l'irrigation -- Aspect social -- Nordeste (Bresil)
- Technique de l'irrigation -- Aspect politique -- Nordeste (Bresil)
- Secours aux victimes de secheresses -- Aspect social -- Nordeste (Bresil)
- Secours aux victimes de secheresses -- Aspect politique -- Nordeste (Bresil)
- Sustainable development -- Social aspects -- Brazil, Northeast
- Sustainable development -- Political aspects -- Brazil, Northeast
- Irrigation engineering -- Social aspects -- Brazil, Northeast
- Irrigation engineering -- Political aspects -- Brazil, Northeast
- Drought relief -- Social aspects -- Brazil, Northeast
- Drought relief -- Political aspects -- Brazil, Northeast
- Northeast Brazil
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.
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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.
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