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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckley, Eve E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazil. Inspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas.

Brazil.

Sustainable development--Social aspects--Brazil, Northeast.

Sustainable development.

Sustainable development--Political aspects--Brazil, Northeast.

Irrigation engineering--Social aspects--Brazil, Northeast.

Irrigation engineering.

Irrigation engineering--Political aspects--Brazil, Northeast.

Drought relief--Social aspects--Brazil, Northeast.

Drought relief.

Drought relief--Political aspects--Brazil, Northeast.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

2017.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

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.

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:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890852472

9781469634319

1469634317

9781469634326

1469634325

OCLC:

993690314