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020 _a9781469634326
020 _z9781469634302
020 _z9781469634296
020 _z9781469634319
020 _z9798890852472
035 _a(OCoLC)993690314
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aBuckley, Eve E.
245 1 0 _aTechnocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
264 1 _bThe University of North Carolina Press,
_c2017.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2017
264 4 _c©2017.
300 _a1 online resource (298 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aDevelopment 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 8 _aThis 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
610 1 7 _aBrazil.
_bInspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01460475
610 1 0 _aBrazil.
_bInspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas.
650 7 _aSustainable development
_xSocial aspects.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01139759
650 7 _aSustainable development
_xPolitical aspects.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01139755
650 7 _aSCIENCE
_xEnvironmental Science.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE
_xGeneral.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS
_xInfrastructure.
_2bisacsh
650 6 _aDeveloppement durable
_xAspect social
_zNordeste (Bresil)
650 6 _aDeveloppement durable
_xAspect politique
_zNordeste (Bresil)
650 6 _aTechnique de l'irrigation
_xAspect social
_zNordeste (Bresil)
650 6 _aTechnique de l'irrigation
_xAspect politique
_zNordeste (Bresil)
650 6 _aSecours aux victimes de secheresses
_xAspect social
_zNordeste (Bresil)
650 6 _aSecours aux victimes de secheresses
_xAspect politique
_zNordeste (Bresil)
650 0 _aSustainable development
_xSocial aspects
_zBrazil, Northeast.
650 0 _aSustainable development
_xPolitical aspects
_zBrazil, Northeast.
650 0 _aIrrigation engineering
_xSocial aspects
_zBrazil, Northeast.
650 0 _aIrrigation engineering
_xPolitical aspects
_zBrazil, Northeast.
650 0 _aDrought relief
_xSocial aspects
_zBrazil, Northeast.
650 0 _aDrought relief
_xPolitical aspects
_zBrazil, Northeast.
651 7 _aNortheast Brazil.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01692631
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/53015/
945 _aProject MUSE - 2017 Complete
945 _aProject MUSE - 2017 History
945 _aProject MUSE - 2017 Latin American and Caribbean Studies
999 _c231934
_d231933