Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
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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2017
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