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Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city
- Title
- Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city / Greg Grandin.
- Author
- Grandin, Greg, 1962-
- Publication
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2009.
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- Description
- xii, 416 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
- Subject
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 > Political and social views
- Ford Motor Company > Influence > History > 20th century
- Rubber plantations > Brazil > Fordlǹdia > History > 20th century
- Planned communities > Brazil > History > 20th century
- Brazil > Civilization > American influences > History > 20th century
- Fordlńdia (Brazil) > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-398) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : nothing is wrong with anything -- Many things otherwise inexplicable. Under an American flag ; The cow must go ; Absolute Americanisms ; That's where we sure can get gold ; Fordville ; They will all die ; Everything Jake ; When Ford comes -- Lord Ford. Two rivers ; Smoke and ash ; Prophesied subjection ; The Ford way of thinking ; What would you give for a good job? ; Let's wander out yonder ; Kill all the Americans -- Rubber Rouge. American pastoral ; Good lines, straight and true ; Mountains of the moon ; Only God can grow a tree ; Standard practices ; Bonfire of the Caterpillars ; Fallen empire of rubber ; Tomorrow land -- Epilogue : still waiting for Henry Ford.
- Call Number
- JBE 14-346
- ISBN
- 9780805082364
- 0805082360
- LCCN
- 2008049642
- OCLC
- 276930372
- 2008049642
- Author
- Grandin, Greg, 1962-
- Title
- Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city / Greg Grandin.
- Imprint
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2009.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-398) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JBE 14-346JHE 10-90