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

By:

Grandin, Greg, , 1962-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Metropolitan Books , 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:

9780805082364

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DDC classification:

307.768 GRA

LOC classification:

F2651.F55 G72 2009

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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.

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

Part I: Many things otherwise inexplicable -- Part II: Lord Ford -- Part III: Rubber Rouge.

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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