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Author:

Grandin, Greg, 1962-

Title:

Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city / Greg Grandin.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Metropolitan Books,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xii, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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

Notes:

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

Contents:

Introduction : Nothing is wrong with anything -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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.

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.

ISBN:

0805082360
9780805082364

OCLC:

(OCoLC)276930372

LCCN:

2008049642

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