Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil.
[Book]
The University of North Carolina Press,
2017.
1 online resource
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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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.
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JSTOR
1020512
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