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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/Henry Holt and Co., 2009.

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Description

xii, 416 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subject

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 > Political and social views
Ford Motor Company > History > 20th century
Planned communities > Brazil > History > 20th century
Rubber plantations > Fordlândia > History > 20th century
Fordlândia (Brazil) > History
Brazil > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-398) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Nothing Is Wrong with Anything -- Pt. I. Many Things Otherwise Inexplicable -- 1. Under an American Flag -- 2. The Cow Must Go -- 3. Absolute Americanisms -- 4. That's Where We Sure Can Get Gold -- 5. Fordville -- 6. They Will All Die -- 7. Everything Jake -- 8. When Ford Comes -- Pt. II. Lord Ford -- 9. Two Rivers -- 10. Smoke and Ash -- 11. Prophesied Subjection -- 12. The Ford Way of Thinking -- 13. What Would You Give for a Good Job? -- 14. Let's Wander Out Yonder -- 15. Kill All the Americans -- Pt. III. Rubber Rouge -- 16. American Pastoral -- 17. Good Lines, Straight and True -- 18. Mountains of the Moon -- 19. Only God Can Grow a Tree -- 20. Standard Practices -- 21. Bonfire of the Caterpillars -- 22. Fallen Empire of Rubber -- 23. Tomorrow Land -- Epilogue: Still Waiting for Henry Ford.

ISBN

9780805082364
0805082360

LCCN

2008049642
40016847613

OCLC

ocn276930372
276930372
SCSB-9036723

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries