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Technocrats and the politics of drought and development in twentieth-century Brazil / Eve E. Buckley.
Lippincott Library HD1696.B83 N6748 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckley, Eve E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brazil. Inspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas.
- Brazil.
- Drought relief--Political aspects--Brazil, Northeast.
- Drought relief.
- Drought relief--Social aspects--Brazil, Northeast.
- Irrigation engineering--Political aspects--Brazil, Northeast.
- Irrigation engineering.
- Irrigation engineering--Social aspects--Brazil, Northeast.
- Sustainable development--Political aspects--Brazil, Northeast.
- Sustainable development.
- Sustainable development--Social aspects--Brazil, Northeast.
- Sustainable development--Social aspects.
- Sustainable development--Political aspects.
- Social aspects.
- Northeast Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 279 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469634296
- 1469634295
- 9781469634302
- 1469634309
- OCLC:
- 965120477
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