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.
I tiakina i:
Kaituhi matua: | |
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Hōputu: | Tāhiko īPukapuka |
Reo: | Ingarihi |
I whakaputaina: |
The University of North Carolina Press,
2017.
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Rangatū: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Urunga tuihono: | Full text available: |
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Rārangi ihirangi:
- 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.