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

This text examines Brazil'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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buckley, Eve E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2017, 2017
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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