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

J Eaglin - 2018 - lbr.uwpress.org
Northeastern Brazil and droughts are geographically and culturally linked. In fact, Brazilians
only began designating “the Northeast” as a particular region after the government formed …

Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil. By Eve E. Buckley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xviii+ …

A Acker - Environmental History, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
In the early 1970s, when the Brazilian military dictatorship launched the biggest operation of
agrarian colonization of the Amazon in history, it did so under the pretext of interregional …

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

NCC de Oliveira - 2018 - JSTOR
Drought has been portrayed as a major problem in the Northeast of Brazil since the arrival of
Portuguese and especially from the nineteenth century onward. Scholarly analysis of this …

Technocrats and the politics of drought and development in twentieth-century Brazil

S Evans - 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Brazil, Buckley explores the history of Brazil's “drought technocrats”(p. 3), who struggled to
find ways to solve the water needs of the sertão–the interior hinterlands–of the Brazilian …

Eve E. Buckley, Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), pp …

J Blanc - Journal of Latin American Studies, 2018 - cambridge.org
767 Book Reviews https://doi. org/10.1017/S0022216X18000585 Published online by
Cambridge University Press and savage. For Buckley, one cannot understand the problems …

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

FF Cruz - Technology and Culture, 2019 - muse.jhu.edu
Known as the sertão, the arid backlands of Brazil's northeastern region have long been
plagued by droughts. Reoccurring every few decades, major droughts have been …

[BOOK][B] Technocrats and the politics of drought and development in twentieth-century Brazil

EE Buckley - 2017 - library.oapen.org
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 …

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

AJ Kirkendall - 2018 - read.dukeupress.edu
Growing out of a doctoral dissertation in the history and sociology of science program at the
University of Pennsylvania, Eve Buckley's new book provides important insights into the …

[BOOK][B] Drought and development: Technocrats and the politics of modernization in Brazil's semi-arid northeast, 1877–1964

EE Buckley - 2006 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation examines technical aid provided by engineers, medical sanitarians,
agronomists and economists to alleviate drought in Northeast Brazil. It draws on recent …

Drought and Public Policy in Northeast Brazil

E Buckley - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American …, 2020 - oxfordre.com
The semi-arid interior of Brazil's northeast region, known as the sertão, has long been
subject to droughts. These can devastate the agricultural and ranching economy and cause …