Fordlandia the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city
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.
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2009.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Fordlandia : |b the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city / |c Greg Grandin. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Metropolitan Books, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 416 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-398) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a Fordlândia (Brazil) |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Planned communities |z Brazil |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Rubber plantations |z Brazil |z Fordlândia |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Ford Motor Company |x Influence |x History |y 20th century. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Ford, Henry, |d 1863-1947 |x Political and social views. |
| 651 | 0 | |a Brazil |x Civilization |x American influences |x History |y 20th century. | |
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