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Agriculture's energy : the trouble with ethanol in Brazil's green revolution / Thomas D. Rogers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Thomas D., 1974- author.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sugarcane industry--Brazil--History--20th century.
- Sugarcane industry.
- Ethanol fuel industry--Brazil--History--20th century.
- Ethanol fuel industry.
- Agriculture and state--Brazil--History--20th century.
- Agriculture and state.
- Agriculture and energy--Social aspects--Brazil.
- Agriculture and energy.
- Agriculture and energy--Environmental aspects--Brazil.
- Programa Nacional do Alcool (Brazil)--History--20th century.
- Programa Nacional do Alcool (Brazil).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Thomas D. Rogers's history of a modernising Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program - created in the 1970s by the nation's military regime - aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country's economy.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Sugarcane and Brazil's Agricultural Modernization
- 1. Indigent Pariahs No More: Agriculture in Brazilian Development, 1918-1960
- 2. Alternative Revolutions: Imposing a Developmental Model, 1960-1975
- 3. Ordering Proálcool: The Arc of the National Alcohol Program, 1975-1990
- Part II: Proálcool's Consequences
- 4. How Brazil's National Alcohol Program Made a Meal of Rural Workers
- 5. The Unnecessary Destruction of Our Rivers: Water Pollution and the Environmental Politics of Ethanol Production
- 6. Food and Fuel: Agriculture's Hunger
- Epilogue: Agriculture's Renewed Energy?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908634-8-5
- 1-4696-7047-X
- 1-4696-7044-5
- 1-4696-7046-1
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