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

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buckley, Eve E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Temas:
Brazil. > Inspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas.
Brazil. > Inspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas
Drought relief > Political aspects > Brazil, Northeast.
Drought relief > Social aspects > Brazil, Northeast.
Irrigation engineering > Political aspects > Brazil, Northeast.
Irrigation engineering > Social aspects > Brazil, Northeast.
Sustainable development > Political aspects > Brazil, Northeast.
Sustainable development > Social aspects > Brazil, Northeast.
Secours aux victimes de sécheresses > Aspect politique > Nordeste (Brésil)
Secours aux victimes de sécheresses > Aspect social > Nordeste (Brésil)
Technique de l'irrigation > Aspect politique > Nordeste (Brésil)
Technique de l'irrigation > Aspect social > Nordeste (Brésil)
Développement durable > Aspect politique > Nordeste (Brésil)
Développement durable > Aspect social > Nordeste (Brésil)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Sustainable development > Political aspects
Sustainable development > Social aspects
Northeast Brazil
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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