Buckley, Eve E. <br/><br/>
Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil 

 -  The University of North Carolina Press  2017. 
 - 1 online resource  
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469634326 9781469634319 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Brazil. Inspectoria Federal de Obras contra as Seccas. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Drought relief--Political aspects--Brazil, Northeast.<br/>Drought relief--Social aspects--Brazil, Northeast.<br/>Irrigation engineering--Political aspects--Brazil, Northeast.<br/>Irrigation engineering--Social aspects--Brazil, Northeast.<br/>Sustainable development--Political aspects--Brazil, Northeast.<br/>Sustainable development--Social aspects--Brazil, Northeast.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD1696  / .T434 2017