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

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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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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Buckley, Eve E.
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
Έκδοση: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Σειρά:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Θέματα:
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.
Electronic books.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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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