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

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Eve E. Buckley's study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation'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. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism an...

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Main Author: Buckley, Eve E. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2017
Subjects:
Environmental science, engineering & technology
History of the Americas
Northeast Brazil
Brazilian sertão
drought in Brazil
drought in the sertão
sertanejos and drought
drought and regional development
regional development in Brazil
technocrats in Brazil
Latin American technocrats
technocrats and development in Latin America
science, technology and public health in Latin America
civil engineers in Latin American history
environmental history of Latin America
Brazilian environmental history
agronomists in Latin American history
drought and social marginality
DNOCS Brazil
Belissário Penna
Celso Furtado
Miguel Arrojado Lisboa
José Guimarães Duque
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Getúlio Vargas
José Américo Almeida
Brazilian cordéis
literatura de cordel and drought
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