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Author Buckley, Eve E.

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

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

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Contents 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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Subject Brazil. Inspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas.
Brazil. Inspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas.
Drought relief -- Political aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Drought relief.
Northeast Brazil.
Drought relief -- Social aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Social aspects.
Irrigation engineering -- Political aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Irrigation engineering.
Irrigation engineering -- Social aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Sustainable development -- Political aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Sustainable development -- Political aspects.
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development -- Social aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Sustainable development -- Social aspects.
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ISBN 1469634325 (electronic book)
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