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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: The University of North Carolina Press 2017.Description: 1 online resource ()Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469634326
  • 9781469634319
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD1696 .T434 2017
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Contents:
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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction HD1696.83 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn993690314

Includes bibliographies and index.

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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