Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
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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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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| 520 | 8 | |a 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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| 650 | 6 | |a Developpement durable |x Aspect politique |z Nordeste (Bresil) | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Technique de l'irrigation |x Aspect social |z Nordeste (Bresil) | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Technique de l'irrigation |x Aspect politique |z Nordeste (Bresil) | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Secours aux victimes de secheresses |x Aspect social |z Nordeste (Bresil) | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Secours aux victimes de secheresses |x Aspect politique |z Nordeste (Bresil) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sustainable development |x Social aspects |z Brazil, Northeast. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sustainable development |x Political aspects |z Brazil, Northeast. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Irrigation engineering |x Social aspects |z Brazil, Northeast. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Irrigation engineering |x Political aspects |z Brazil, Northeast. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Drought relief |x Social aspects |z Brazil, Northeast. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Drought relief |x Political aspects |z Brazil, Northeast. | |
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