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BL
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850202
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Buckley, Eve E.
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Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil.
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| Publication Statement
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The University of North Carolina Press,, 2017.
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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1469634317
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: 1469634325
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: 9781469634319
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: 9781469634326
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1469634295
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1469634309
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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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Brazil.
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Brazil.
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Drought relief-- Political aspects-- Brazil, Northeast.
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Drought relief-- Social aspects-- Brazil, Northeast.
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Irrigation engineering-- Political aspects-- Brazil, Northeast.
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Irrigation engineering-- Social aspects-- Brazil, Northeast.
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Sustainable development-- Political aspects-- Brazil, Northeast.
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Sustainable development-- Social aspects-- Brazil, Northeast.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Infrastructure.
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SCIENCE-- Environmental Science.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
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Sustainable development-- Political aspects.
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Sustainable development-- Social aspects.
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Northeast Brazil.
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| Dewey Classification
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363.34/929098130904
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HD1696.B83
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