عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
HD1696.B83
HD1696
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B83
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1469634317
(Number (ISBN
1469634325
(Number (ISBN
9781469634319
(Number (ISBN
9781469634326
Erroneous ISBN
1469634295
Erroneous ISBN
1469634309
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil.
General Material Designation
[Book]
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
MIL
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
1020512
Stock Number
22573/ctt1sp3rn2
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Brazil.
Brazil.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Infrastructure.
SCIENCE-- Environmental Science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
Sustainable development-- Political aspects.
Sustainable development-- Social aspects.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Northeast Brazil.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
BUS-- 032000
HIS033000
SCI026000
SOC-- 000000
SOC042000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
363
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34/929098130904
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HD1696
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B83
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Buckley, Eve E.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200823025604.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
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ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
