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Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Buckley, Eve E.

Table of Contents: “…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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Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Buckley, Eve E.

Table of Contents: “…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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Big Water : The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay /

Table of Contents: “…Crossing Borders: Immigration and Transformation of Landscapes in Misiones Province, Argentina, and Southern Brazil / Eunice Sueli Nodari -- 4. Argentinizing the Border: Conservation and Colonization in the Iguazú National Park, 1890s-1950s / Frederico Freitas -- Part III. …”
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The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / by Townsend, Sarah J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The uneven stage of the avant-gardes -- Mexico -- Rehearsals of the tragi-co(s)mic race -- Primitivist accumulation and Teatro sintetico -- Radio/puppets, or the institutionalization of a (media) revolution -- Brazil -- Parsifal on the periphery of capitalism -- Phonography, operatic ethnography, and other bad arts -- Total theater and missing pieces -- Postscript: Loose ends.…”
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In Search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region / by Garfield, Seth, 1967-

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Big Water : The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay /

Table of Contents: “…Crossing Borders: Immigration and Transformation of Landscapes in Misiones Province, Argentina, and Southern Brazil / Eunice Sueli Nodari -- 4. Argentinizing the Border: Conservation and Colonization in the Iguazú National Park, 1890s-1950s / Frederico Freitas -- Part III. …”
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The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / by Townsend, Sarah J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The uneven stage of the avant-gardes -- Mexico -- Rehearsals of the tragi-co(s)mic race -- Primitivist accumulation and Teatro sintetico -- Radio/puppets, or the institutionalization of a (media) revolution -- Brazil -- Parsifal on the periphery of capitalism -- Phonography, operatic ethnography, and other bad arts -- Total theater and missing pieces -- Postscript: Loose ends.…”
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In Search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region / by Garfield, Seth, 1967-

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Global Diffusion of Protest : Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis /

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Population, city and environment in contemporary Mexico /

Table of Contents: “…Is the nature of consensual union in Latin America changing? The examples of Brazil, Mexico and the Dominican Republic /…”
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Global Diffusion of Protest : Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis /

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Population, city and environment in contemporary Mexico /

Table of Contents: “…Is the nature of consensual union in Latin America changing? The examples of Brazil, Mexico and the Dominican Republic /…”
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New Countries : Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 / by Tutino, John, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Americas in the rise of industrial capitalism / John Tutino -- The Cádiz liberal revolution and Spanish American independence / Roberto Breña -- Union, capitalism, and slavery in the "rising empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman -- From slave colony to Black nation : Haiti's revolutionary inversion / Carolyn Fick -- Cuban counterpoint : colonialism and continuity in the Atlantic world / David Sartorius -- Atlantic transformations and Brazil's imperial independence / Kirsten Schultz -- Becoming Mexico : the conflictive search for a North American nation / Alfredo Ávila and John Tutino -- The republic of Guatemala : stitching together a new country / Jordana Dym -- From one patria, two nations in the Andean heartland / Sarah C. …”
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The politics of vaccination : A global history /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Vaccination and national identity -- The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 -- Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy: the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India -- Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe -- 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns -- Part II: Nationality, vaccine production and the end of sovereign manufacture -- Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico -- The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands -- Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -- A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan -- Part III: Vaccination, the individual and society -- The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media -- Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden -- Polio vaccination, political authority and the Nigerian state -- The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns.…”
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Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World : Case Studies 1950-2010 /

Table of Contents: “…Brazilian shipbuilding and workers between tradition and innovation: Shipyards Caneco/Rio Nave and Mauá -- Rio de Janeiro, 1950-2014 / Elina G. da Fonte Pessanha and Luisa Barbosa Pereira; 20. …”
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Make It New : Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century / by Beuttler, Bill

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New Countries : Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 / by Tutino, John, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Americas in the rise of industrial capitalism / John Tutino -- The Cádiz liberal revolution and Spanish American independence / Roberto Breña -- Union, capitalism, and slavery in the "rising empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman -- From slave colony to Black nation : Haiti's revolutionary inversion / Carolyn Fick -- Cuban counterpoint : colonialism and continuity in the Atlantic world / David Sartorius -- Atlantic transformations and Brazil's imperial independence / Kirsten Schultz -- Becoming Mexico : the conflictive search for a North American nation / Alfredo Ávila and John Tutino -- The republic of Guatemala : stitching together a new country / Jordana Dym -- From one patria, two nations in the Andean heartland / Sarah C. …”
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The politics of vaccination : A global history /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Vaccination and national identity -- The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 -- Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy: the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India -- Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe -- 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns -- Part II: Nationality, vaccine production and the end of sovereign manufacture -- Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico -- The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands -- Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -- A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan -- Part III: Vaccination, the individual and society -- The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media -- Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden -- Polio vaccination, political authority and the Nigerian state -- The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns.…”
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Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World : Case Studies 1950-2010 /

Table of Contents: “…Brazilian shipbuilding and workers between tradition and innovation: Shipyards Caneco/Rio Nave and Mauá -- Rio de Janeiro, 1950-2014 / Elina G. da Fonte Pessanha and Luisa Barbosa Pereira; 20. …”
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Make It New : Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century / by Beuttler, Bill

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