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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主要作者: Buckley, Eve E.
格式: 电子 电子书
语言:英语
出版: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
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书本目录:
  • 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.